Trailer collides with bus, three killed, 20 injured

Ranchi (IANS) | Three people traveling in a passenger bus were killed, while around 20 people were injured in a road accident in Chutupalu valley of Ramgarh district on Ranchi-Patna road on Tuesday morning. It was told that the bus was coming from Bakhtiyarpur in Bihar to Ranchi. Meanwhile, the brake of the trailer coming from Ranchi on the second lane failed, due to which the trailer became uncontrollable. Uncontrolled trailer broke the divider and hit the bus going to Ranchi from the other lane.

Both the bus and the trailer overturned. Many people got buried under the vehicles.

The local people and the police team took everyone out. Three people died on the spot. There is also a policeman among them, who was traveling on the bus.

Due to the road accident, one lane of Ranchi-Ramgarh was blocked for hours. Police sent all the three bodies for postmortem. With the help of the local people, the injured have been admitted to Ramgarh Sadar Hospital.

–IANS