Three students of Lakhisarai Engineering College were killed in a tragic road accident near Manjhwe village in Jamui district on the Jamui–Lakhisarai state highway on Thursday morning, July 31. The students were travelling to Jamui station in a CNG auto after leaving college to catch a train when their auto collided with a truck parked on the roadside.
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The deceased have been identified as Saroj Kumar (son of Sandeep Pandit, village Kharihari, district Samastipur), Pankaj Kumar (son of Ravishankar Sah, village Rai Kanthpur, Ujiyarpur police station, Samastipur), and Sahil Kumar (son of Satish Kumar, village Gauri, Chandi police station, district Nalanda).
All three were pursuing studies at Lakhisarai Engineering College. After the accident, their bodies were sent for post-mortem with the assistance of local residents and police.
Principal of Shivsona Engineering College, Vimlesh Kumar said, "In the morning, they were going to catch a train from Lakhisarai in a toto (auto-rickshaw).. These students were from Samastipur and Nalanda. They left from here and then either a truck hit the toto or there was a collision caused by the toto itself. Due to this, three students died on the spot and one student is in critical condition who has been referred to Patna..."
A student said, "They were going home. Our exams had just ended yesterday. Ajit, my roommate, called and said they had met with an accident. So Nitish and I immediately got up and rushed. When we reached there, we saw three boys lying dead. Ankit’s leg was fractured..."