Coal-laden truck crushes three students to death in Jharkhand

The Class 12 students died on the spot and one of the bodies was dragged by the truck some 30 metres away.

A coal-laden truck crushed to death three students who were travelling on a bike on Baliapur-Govindpur Hirak road, around 20 km away from district headquarters here on Monday.

The two-wheeler collided head on with a truck coming from opposite side(HT/ Representative Photo)

Deputy superintendent of police Sindri range Vikas Kumar Pandey said all three students identified as Sachin Das, Rohit Yadav and Shivam were going on a bike to Govindpur around 6.30pm when their two-wheeler collided head on with a truck coming from opposite side.

All of them died on the spot and one of the students’ body was dragged by the truck some 30 metres away, the DSP said. The bike caught fire after the incident and was reduced to ashes.

The police official said the truck driver fled with vehicle after the incident.

Villagers blocked the road in protest and smashed the wind screens of coal-laden trucks and other vehicles that were crossing at that time.

The victims were class 12 students of DAV Sindri school.