Three people, who were hiding under a bamboo tree to escape the strong storm and rain, died after being hit by the tree in Barwahi village of Garhwa police station of the district on Sunday afternoon. The three men were fishing in a pond and tried to hide under bamboo tree to shelter from rains. The storm was so strong that the bamboo tree was uprooted, due to which all three were caught and trapped and died.
On receiving the information, Garhwa SDPO Awadh Yadav, BDO Kumud Jha, CO Mayank Bhushan and Sadar police station in-charge Krishna Kumar, SI Abhimanyu Singh reached the spot along with the crew and started taking out the bodies of the people trapped in the bamboo from the JCB.
Former Palamu MP Ghuran Ram reached the spot. He said that information has been received that some people were fishing. In this sequence, the storm started blowing and it also rained. To avoid this, they hid under a nearby bamboo tree, but the storm was so strong that it uprooted the bamboo tree, killing three youths.
All deceased were identified as , Rajendra Bhuyan (55 years), Phekan Bhuyan (42 years) and Manager Bhuyan (43 years) residents of the Barwahi village. BDO said that investigation is going on in the matter and compensation will be given after investigation. Former MP Ghuran Ram, BJP District President Omprakash Keshari, BJP leader Jawahar Paswan, BJP Youth District President Ritesh Choubey, BJP leader Arvind Dhar Dubey, Mukhiya Niwas Ram, JMM leader Abhishek Dhar Dubey, Gunjan Dhar Dubey, and a large number of villagers were present on the spot.