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Engineer killed in Jharkhand road accident

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IANS Ranchi

An engineer was killed in a road accident in Jharkhand's Gumla district on Friday when his car collided with a pick-up van head-on, police said.

Krishna Kumar Bharti, posted as an engineer in the Rourkela Steel Plant, had come home on a holiday.

He was going to Lohardagga district from Gumla when the accident occurred at Dedang village, a police officer said. The driver of the pick-up van fled.

The intensity of the crash was such that the car was left mangled trapping the engineer inside.

--IANS

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First Published: Nov 03 2017 | 5:46 PM IST

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