Eight killed as truck ploughs into roadside eatery in Bihar

Eight folks had been killed and a number of other others critically injured when a dashing truck ploughed right into a roadside eatery in Bihar’s Nalanda district on Sunday, police mentioned.
Irate locals set fireplace to the car and indulged in heavy stone-pelting when police and administrative officers reached the spot, a senior police officer mentioned.
The accident came about in Telhada police station space within the night when the motive force of the truck coming from neighbouring Jehanabad district misplaced management over the car, Deputy Superintendent of Police Krishna Murari Sharan mentioned.
Employees of the consuming joint and clients are among the many deceased, he mentioned.

The driver and different occupants of the truck deserted the car and fled the spot, following which infuriated spectators set it on fireplace.
Police personnel had been pelted with stones whereas they tried to take the our bodies for autopsy examination and the injured to hospitals.

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The car of the Block Development Officer involved was additionally vandalised, the deputy SP mentioned, including an enormous police contingent has been deployed within the space to maintain the scenario below management.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who hails from Nalanda district, expressed grief over the tragedy and directed the district Justice of the Peace to offer ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh every to the subsequent of the kin of the deceased.