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At least 18 Kanwariyas were killed and several others injured in a tragic road accident early Tuesday morning(July 29) on the Godda-Deoghar road in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district.
The incident took place around 5:30 am near Jamunia More in the Mohanpur police station area, when a bus carrying pilgrims collided with a truck.
VIDEO | Jharkhand: At least five Kanwariyas were killed and several injured in a road accident in Deoghar on Tuesday, a police officer said.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) July 29, 2025
The incident took place when a bus carrying Kanwariyas collided with a vehicle transporting gas cylinders near Jamuniya forest under… pic.twitter.com/VZ28GC6qwH
The bus was reportedly en route to a religious site where the pilgrims were to offer holy water. After being alerted by locals, Mohanpur SHO Priyaranjan Kumar and his team reached the spot and rushed the injured to a nearby hospital. The bodies of the deceased have been sent for post-mortem.
“In my Lok Sabha constituency of Deoghar, 18 devotees lost their lives in a tragic accident involving a bus and a truck during the Kanwar Yatra in the holy month of Shravan,” Godda MP Nishikant Dubey wrote in a post on X. “ May Baba Baidyanath give strength to their families to bear this grief.”
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