The incident took place when the puppeteers were returning to their village under Bara Bazar police station in Purulia district after performing a show at a village fair in Patamda last night.
Six members of the group were seriously injured in the accident and two of them succumbed during treatment at a government hospital, police said.
Other members of the group, who had decided to stay back in Patamda, took the two bodies to their village.
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