Three people, including two students of the Gamharia-based Xavier Institute for Tribal Education (XITE), were killed in two separate road accidents that took place at Gamharia and Chandil in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district on Sunday night.
The budding managers who were killed were identified as J Moria Kerketta (21), a resident of DVC Colony in Ranchi and Kuna Soren (20), a resident of Parsudih in the city outskirts. The other victim who was killed in the mishap was identified as Chakradhar Karmakar (55), a peon posted at the Subernarekha Multi-purpose Project in Chandil.
Three persons, including Karmakar's wife Sandhya were also injured in the mishap. The injured have been admitted at the MGM Medical College and Hospital.
According to information three students of the XITE, Kerketta, Soren and Ashish Bara (21) were riding a sports bike toward Jamshedpur. As they were moving on the Tata-Kandra Road towards Bistupur, another bike which was coming from the opposite direction collided head on near the lal Building under Gamharia police station area.
Sources said as three students were without helmets, two of them were fatally injured, whereas another rider, Bara was seriously injured. The three seriously injured were rushed to MGM Medical College and Hospital emergency where the doctors declared Kerketta and Soren as brought dead.
Bara, who is a resident of Satbohni, Adityapur has been admitted to the medical college hospital along with a cycle rider Jivan Ghosh who sustained injury when the two bikes collided.
Officer-in-charge, Gamharia police station, Adikant Mahto said the another biker who was coming from the wrong side was admitted at the Kantilal Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Bistupur.
The newly inaugurated four-lane Tata-Kandra Road has virtually turned into ‘death trap’ considering the number of causalities reported ever since the road got operational.
In the other mishap, Chakradhar Karmakar was killed as the bike he was riding with his wife Sandhya sitting as pillion rider was hit by an SUV from behind under Chandil police station area. The mishap took place while the Karmakar couple were returning home at Chandil from a relative's house by negotiating the NH-33 .
The police have recovered all the three bodies of the road mishap victims and sent them to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem.