Speeding truck kills woman in Sahibganj, irate locals attack cops

Dumka: Irate locals of a village in Sahibganj district resorted to vandalism and stone-pelting against a police check-post after a 65-year-old woman was crushed to death by a speeding truck carrying stone chips on Tuesday.
Police said Kajal Devi died on the spot near Bhagaiya which originally falls under Mehrma police station in neighbouring Godda district bordering Sahibganj and Bhagalpur in Bihar.The village is now under the Mirjachouki police station of Sahibganj.
Soon after the incident, hundreds of locals put up a blockade on the Bhagaiya-Firojpur road against rash driving by trucks regularly on this route. When the police came to remove the blockade, the locals resisted and started pelting stones and vandalizing many vehicles, including police vans.
Police said no one received severe injuries in the incident.
Godda SP Nathu Singh Meena said, “The road blockade was enforced by a section of villagers following the death of a woman but we cleared it soon. Later, a mob resorted to vandalism at a police check post bordering Mirjachouki police station in Sahibganj district."
Inspector Sashi Bhushan Choudhary said by the time the police check-post was vandalised there were no cops there. “Efforts are on to identify the culprits involved in attacking the police check-post and damaging the vehicles,” he said.