Three people were killed, and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a van in West Singhbhum on Monday, police said to the news agency PTI.

The accident took place under the Hatgamariah police station area in West Singhbhum district.

“All the injured were shifted to nearby hospitals, including Champua on the Jharkhand-Odisha border and Kumardungi in the district,” Officer-in-Charge of Hatgamharia police station, Uttam Tiwary, said.

The victims include the driver of the vehicle.

The condition of one of the injured, identified as Phulmati Devi, was said to be critical, the officer added.

A similar incident was reported in Bihar when five people died in a road accident in Patna after their car collided with a truck. The incident occurred in the Parsa Bazar neighbourhood of Patna.

According to sources, the collision of the two vehicles was severe, leading to the on-spot death of the five businessmen travelling in the car. The five included Rajesh Kumar, 50, Sanjay Singh, 55, Prakash Chaurasia, 35, and Sunil Kumar, 38, and 28-year-old Kamal Kishore, the youngest of the five victims.

The car the five were travelling in struck the truck at high speed near the Mahuli area at around 1 am, killing all the passengers inside the vehicle. The victims were returning to Patna from Fatuha.

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With inputs from PTI.