RANCHI: Five of a family, including a woman and two minors, were killed in a road accident in Jharkhand's Deoghar on Tuesday morning.
The family members were traveling in an SUV from Asansol village under Sarath PS of Deoghar district to Giridih early on Tuesday morning when the SUV lost balance and fell into the Sikatia Barrage.
Manoj Kumar (30), his wife Lovely Kumari (25), their two children — aged 2 years and another six months — and Kumar’s brother-in-law (18) died in the accident whereas driver Gautam Kumar was admitted to hospital in injured condition.
According to family members, who reached the spot after getting information about the accident, Kumar had visited his in-laws' place in Deoghar and was returning home in Hansdiha in Giridih along with other family members.
“Apparently the driver plunged the car into the canal,” alleged one of the family members.
Locals got hold of the driver and handed him over to police, who is however being treated at Deoghar sadar hospital.
Sub-divisional police officer Sarath Virendra Kumar Banka said that Lovely Kumari, daughter of Mukesh Rai, a resident of Asansol village in Deoghar, was returning to home in Giridih.
“We are yet to ascertain the cause of accident but the driver can give some clue what happened just before the car fell into the canal,” he said.
Police team from Chitra police station and Sarath police station fished out the SUV and the bodies crammed inside it and took them to Sadar hospital in Deoghar where five were declared dead.
The bodies were handed over to the family members after postmortem.
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