Bokaro: A speeding truck killed two people on National Highway-23 (Bokaro-Ranchi) on Thursday morning. A bicycle rider and a person riding a scooty were hit by a truck near Bari-Cooperative intersection under City Police station. Following the incident, locals blocked the NH demanding installation of a speed breaker at the spot to avoid such incidents.
The agitators kept the bodies on the road and blocked traffic for about two hours. It was only after SDO Chas Dilip Pratap Singh Shekhawat, DSP City Kuldeep Chaudhary and MLA Biranchi Narayan came to the spot and assured possible help that the blockade was lifted. The MLA held the meeting with the officers on the spot and talked to the officials of NHAI over the phone demanding installation of the breakers at the intersection.