Three dead in Chatra road accidents

Chatra: Three young men died in two road accidents in Chatra district.In the first incident, two cousins — Shashikant (30) of Padma village (32) and Saurabh Kumar alias Chhotu of Kuju village — died when a speeding coal-laden truck rammed their scooter on the Tandwa–Piparwar road near Block More early Wednesday. The two were travelling towards Basaria-Laranga carrying a battery when the driver of the truck, coming from the opposite direction, lost control of the vehicle and hit the scooter and ran over them. Both died on the spot and the scooter was mangled, police said.Locals said they were going to help Shankar Mahto, a truck driver stranded near Basaria for nearly three days after his vehicle broke down. Shashikant leaves behind an an eight-month-old child.Officer in-charge of the Tandwa police station Pappu Sharma said, “Efforts were on to arrest the truck driver.”In another incident, Vikas Kumar Yadav (23) was run over by a speeding truck on NH-22 near Murainwa village under Vashisth Nagar police station late Tuesday night. He was returning from a wedding.