Four people from a family on their way to celebrate Chhath in their native village in Bihar.
Jamtara:
Four people from a family on their way to celebrate Chhath in their hometown of Katihar, Bihar, were killed in a head-on collision between their car and a van in the Jamtara neighborhood of Jharkhand on Sunday, police said.
The family were traveling from Dhanbad to their hometown of Katihar when their car collided with the pickup truck coming from the other direction in Satsal, they said.
Those killed were Vishwanath Mishra (55), his wife Yaras (50), their son Sumit (32) and daughter-in-law Ragini (30), police said.
Vishwanath’s five-year-old granddaughter Khushi and three-year-old grandson Piyush were injured in the crash and are undergoing treatment at PMCH, Dhanbad.
Vishwanath, a retired soldier, is currently employed in the office of the Divisional Director of Railways in Dhanbad.
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