3 women killed as pick-up van collides with tractor in Ranchi

3 women killed as pick-up van collides with tractor in Ranchi

Three women were killed in Jharkhand's Ranchi district on Monday morning as the pick-up van on which they were travelling collided with a tractor after hitting the road median, police said.

The accident happened in the Ratu Chatti area, they said.

The women were on the way to a waterbody for rituals on the occasion of the Chaiti Chhath festival, said Shashibhusan Chaudhary, the inspector of Ratu police station.

''The three women died on the spot,'' he said.

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