A passenger bus of Pammi Travels coming from Hazaribagh to Ranchi ran over 42-year-old Mohar Munda, a mason by profession, near Vikas Vidyalay under Ormanjhi police station.
The accident took place while he was riding his bicycle to work on Saturday morning. In protest over his death, Munda’s family members and locals blocked the highway for the better part of four hours. The gathered agitators also damaged the bus by hurling stones at it.
This resulted in long queues of vehicles on both side of the road, and some passengers stuck in the jam decided to get to their destinations on foot.
Coming to know of the accident and resulting protests, police personnel from BIT Mesra OP along with Kanke Circle Officer Anwar Hussain arrived at
the scene.
Munda’s family members lifted the blockage around 1:30 pm after the CO offered them `5,000 ex-gratia for the time being.
Meanwhile, in another road accident, an unidentified vehicle collided with a motorcycle ridden by three youths near lamkana More, under the jurisdiction of Bero police station, killing all of them on the spot.
The bodies were sent for post-mortem and the identities of the victims and the vehicle were yet to be ascertained by the time this report was written.