CURATED BY – CHANDAN KUMAR CHAUBEY | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Bhojpur, On Thursday morning, a speeding uncontrolled dumper crushed a bike rider in Bhojpur, causing his tragic death on the spot. The deceased has been identified as Anuj Kumar alias Bholu (24), son of Anand Dubey, a resident of Salempur village of Dhobha police station area. The incident took place near Paswan Chowk in Chowkipur of Gajrajganj police station area. His brother sitting on the bike was seriously injured in this incident. He has been admitted to Ara Sadar Hospital for treatment in a hurry. On the other hand, as soon as the news of death in a road accident was received, the family of the deceased and the local people got angry and they blocked the road near the incident spot and created a ruckus. Due to the road jam, traffic on the Ara-Buxar main road was completely disrupted for about two hours. On receiving the information of road jam, the local police station reached the spot and after convincing the angry people, the body was sent to Ara Sadar Hospital for postmortem and the road jam was removed.

Dumper crushed while going to village

Regarding the incident, people told that Anand Dubey, a resident of Salempur village of Dhobha police station area, currently lives in Maula Bagh of Ara. This morning his son Anuj Kumar alias Bholu and his brother were going to their village on a bike. Then an uncontrolled dumper coming from the opposite direction near Paswan Chowk crushed them. In this incident, Anuj Kumar alias Bholu died on the spot.

Even after no entry, the police collects money and gives permission to the dumper to go

After the incident, the angry villagers blocked the Ara Buxar main road and started creating a ruckus. The angry people say that even after no entry, big trucks keep coming and going here at an unbridled speed, but the administration neither imposes fine on those truck drivers nor takes any action. Due to extortion by the police, accidents are happening every day and people are dying.
Local people demanded deployment of police force

The police reached the spot several hours after getting information about the incident, due to which people got more angry. As soon as the police arrived late, people started raising slogans against the police. However, as soon as the incident happened, the local people chased and caught the dumper. The driver fled from the spot leaving the truck after the accident. Villager Ramji Paswan, who was blocking the road after the accident, said that despite the no-entry, big vehicles ply at high speed on this route without any fear, due to which accidents are happening every day. Even today, an uncontrolled dumper crushed two bike riders, in which one youth died on the spot while the other was badly injured and has been admitted to Sadar Hospital for treatment. Local people demanded that police force should be deployed at Paswan Chowk and no-entry should be strictly followed so that such accidents can be curbed.