Road accident.
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At least seven people were killed and several others injured when a Patna-bound bus overturned in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district. A senior official in the case said that the accident took place near Gorhar police station area, about 50 km from the district headquarters, when the bus overturned on a sharp turn.
Seven died, 10 more seriously injured
Hazaribagh SP Arvind Kumar Singh said that seven people died, while some were seriously injured. Another official said that at the time of the accident, there were about 50 passengers in the bus, which was going from Kolkata to Patna. The condition of 10 people injured in the accident is critical. He has been admitted to RIMS Hospital in Ranchi. Most of the passengers in the bus were sleeping at the time of the accident. So far only three people have been identified among those killed. Four other bodies have been kept at Hazaribagh's Sheikh Bhikhari Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH) for identification.
All passengers were sleeping during the accident
In this case, a passenger Motichand Prasad told that his wife Rajkumari Prasad died in this accident. Prasad, a resident of Gopalganj in Bihar, said, we were sleeping when the accident happened in the morning. We boarded the bus from Kolkata to Bihar on Wednesday. Ganesh Kumar, another traveler from Bihar Sharif, said that the incident happened at around 6 in the morning.
Treatment of the injured continues in RIMS and SBMCH of Ranchi.
Barhi Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SPDO) Ajit Kumar said that so far only three bodies have been identified. Three seriously injured people were referred to RIMS in Ranchi, while others are being treated at SBMCH.
