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Ramgarh: Four people, including two women and a child, were killed after being run over by a vehicle in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district, police said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred early on Tuesday on the Gola-Rajrappa Road in Bhubhai village when a group of people were celebrating the Sohrai festival and a four-wheeler ran them over, a senior officer said.
“When they were celebrating the festival, the four-wheeler hit them. Two women, a child and a 55-year-old man were killed on the spot,” Gola Police Station in-charge Abhishek Prasad told PTI.
Locals caught the driver of the vehicle and allegedly beat him, he said.
The driver was admitted to a hospital, while the bodies of the four deceased were sent for post-mortem examinations, the officer added.