Eight youths, all are resident of Biramitrapur were going towards Lucknow by a Scorpio. According to sources, a youth identified as Kedar Priyadarshi Barik (28), a resident of Jagda area and founder of Sundargarh Yuva Sena who owns the Scorpio alongwith seven other youths had left Biramitrapur on Thursday night.
Kedar Priyadarshi Barik was driving his Scorpio. At about 4 AM while driving the vehicle, Kedar Priyadarshi noticed a dumper coming from front on the bridge of Sarjna river under Khunti police station in Jharkhand. While he just took left turn to allow the dumper to pass, he reportedly lost control of the vehicle which overturned and fell into Sarjana river in Jharkhand killing seven persons on the spot.
After heating about the tragic incident, several people from Bajrang Dal, Hindu Sena & Viswa Hindu Parisad have gone to Khunti to bring the bodies of seven deceased. According to sources, Kedar Priyadarshi who was driving the Scorpio, has regained consciousness and he is brought to Rourkela for treatment.
According to Brahmani Tarang police, on Thursday morning, Vicky Singh had lodged complaint in Brahamani Tarang police station about missing of her sister on Wednesday. Brahmani Tarang police had registered a case. According to sources, these eight youths including Vicky Singh were going to Lucknow to search for Vicky Singh’s sister.