India News | Truck Runs over Engineering Student in Jharkhand's Dhanbad District

Dhanbad (Jharkhand), Dec 28 (PTI) A 23-year-old engineering student was crushed to death by a truck in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, police said on Thursday.

Sindri Avinash Priyadarshi, a third-year electrical engineering student from Birsa Institute of Technology (BIT), was on his way to a relative's home on a motorcycle around 7.30pm on Wednesday when his bike skidded off the road near Kandra on Sindri-Jhari road, around 170km from Ranchi, police said.

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"Priyadarshi fell on the road and a truck coming from the opposite direction crushed him to death," Goshala police station in-charge Virendra Kumar said.

After getting information, relatives and students of the institute reached the spot and blocked the Sindri-Jharia road demanding arrest of the truck driver.

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The blockade was withdrawn around 11.40pm after police intervention.

Kumar told reporters that the body had been sent for post-mortem and Rs 75,000 was given for the student's last rites.

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