Latehar, Aug 15 (PTI) Six people were killed after a container truck rammed into an auto-rickshaw and a motorcycle in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Saturday, police said.
The accident happened between 5 pm and 6 pm in the Dedh Tangawa valley in the Chandwa police station area, they said.
Among those killed were Afasari Khatoon (40) and her son Asjad (7), Chandwa police station officer-in-charge Manoranjan Prasad told PTI “Three of those killed were residents of Latehar. The driver of the auto-rickshaw also died and was identified as Ragib Khan (35), a resident of Lohardaga district, while the identity of two others is yet to be established,” he said.
The bodies were sent to the Sadar Hospital for post-mortem examinations, he added. PTI COR RPS NAM RPS SOM
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