PATNA: At least two persons were killed and 10 others seriously injured when a bus they were travelling in collided with a stationary truck on Patna-Bakhtiyarpur NH-30 near Majhauli village under Salimpur police station in the district on Friday.
The deceased have been identified as
Umesh Prasad
(35) and
Sanjay Raj (25), both residents of
Ashok Nagar
in Kankarbagh locality of Patna.
SHO of Salimpur police station
Ajay Kumar said the accident took place around 6am when the bus, carrying around 70 members of a marriage party, was on way to Patna from Deoghar in Jharkhand.
“The collision was so powerful that the front portion of the bus was completely damaged,” the SHO said, adding the bus driver fled from the spot after the accident. “The owner of the bus has been identified. The truck was parked on the roadside. If passengers are to be believed, the accident occurred as the driver of the bus dozed off,” the SHO said.
He said the injured passengers were rushed to
Patna Medical College
and Hospital, where Umesh and Sanjay died.