One killed in bus-truck collision in Palamau

Palamau: One person was killed while several others were injured in a collision of a bus and a truck near Rajderva village of Palamau.

Sources said the bus carrying over 50 passengers rammed head-on into the truck. The collision was so powerful that the truck driver was crushed to death in his seat. The bus driver was seriously injured in the incident.

Several senior police officials rushed to the scene and sent the passengers to nearby nursing home. The body of the truck driver was somehow taken out from the mangled truck, sources said.