Jamshedpur:
Two members of a puppet group from West Bengal were killed and four others were injuries when the vehicle carrying them hit a roadside tree near Patamda in East Singhbhum district, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place when the puppeteers were returning to their village under Bara Bazar police station in Purulia district after performing a show at a village fair in Patamda last night.
Six members of the group were seriously injured in the accident and two of them succumbed during treatment at a government hospital, police said.
Other members of the group, who had decided to stay back in Patamda, took the two bodies to their village.
The police were checking if the driver of the vehicle was drunk.
