Tragedy struck as two persons including a woman were killed in separate road mishaps at Mango and Patamda on Thursday morning. A 50-year-old woman was killed on the spot when a trailer run her over at Sankosai on Dimna Road in Mango, in another mishap a 20-year-old youth was killed while travelling in a van at Patamda Road in Patamda.
Shobha Chandra was heading for Dimna Road with her husband when a speeding trailer hit the bike. The woman as well as her husband fell off the road and she died on the spot. Both the victims were rushed to MGM Medical College. A section of local residents had set up a blockade to protest the movement of heavy vehicles on the Dimna Road.
In another incident, the mishap victim identified as Somnath Khalinga was found killed in a van in which he was travelling from Jamshedpur to his house in Patamda.