Balod, Oct 27 (PTI) Three men riding a motorcycle died after their two-wheeler collided with a car in Chhattisgarh's Balod district, police said on Friday.

The accident took place on Thursday night on the Dondi-Bhanupratappur road under the Dondi police station area, a local police official said.

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Victims Chhatrapal (21), Gitesh Darro (22) and Chuneshwar (21) were heading from Dondi to their village Jhurahtola on a motorcycle when the two-wheeler collided with a car, he said.

While one of them died on the spot, the other two succumbed to injuries while being taken to a hospital, he said.

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The car driver fled the spot leaving behind his vehicle, he said.

A case has been registered and efforts are on to trace the car driver, the official added.

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