KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, March 11: A 35-year-old man was killed on the spot and another man was injured as the bike they were riding was hit by a bus from behind along Nuagaon on Hata-Haldipokhar road under Kowali thana area about 21 km away from here on Saturday morning.
The victims were on their way to the weekly Haat in Haldipokhar from their homes in the Gitilata area for shopping when the mishap took place.
The one killed was identified as Ravi Gope and the injured was identified as Jiten Bhagat.
After causing the mishap, the bus driver tried to escape by accelerating the speed of the bus, but some passersby chased the vehicle and intercepted it about two km away. The people had handed over the driver after a thorough thrashing for rash driving in crowded spot.
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Kowali thana OC, Ranjit Oraon who had reached the spot immediately rescued the victims and rushed them to MGM medical college hospital. The doctors on emergency duty declared Ravi Gope as brought dead.
It may be mentioned here that an adequate number of speed-breakers used to exist on the Hata-Haldipokhar road earlier, but during road-widening work done in the recent past, those speed-breakers were made non-existent, giving rise to the mishaps.
