Ranchi, April 15: Three women were killed in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Monday morning as the pick-up van on which they were travelling collided with a tractor after hitting the road median, police said. The accident happened in the Ratu Chatti area, they said. Jharkhand Road Accident: Class 9 Girl Killed, Two Others Injured After Police Bus Hits Two-Wheeler in Deoghar District

The women were on the way to a waterbody for rituals on the occasion of the Chaiti Chhath festival, said Shashibhusan Chaudhary, the inspector of Ratu police station. "The three women died on the spot," he said.

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