Palamu: A major accident took place a day before the New Year in the Palamu district of Jharkhand. About six persons were killed in the incident. An official said, six labourers, including three women, were killed and 18 others injured in a head-on collision between a pickup van and a truck at Hariharganj in Palamu district on Friday.
The officer also said that the incident took place late in the evening when labourers from Panki in Palamu were returning to their village after harvesting paddy in Sihudi village of neighbouring Bihar. Some of these workers died on the spot. The official said the death toll could rise. The incident took place on NH-98.
Hariharganj Block Development Officer Jaiprakash Narayan, who reached the accident site, said that three labourers died on the spot and all the other three women died due to treatment in Aurangabad, Bihar. Hariharganj police station in-charge Sudama Kumar Das said that 12 labourers are undergoing treatment at Hariharganj Community Health Centre. Six other seriously injured workers have been sent to Medinirai Medical College and Hospital for better treatment.
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