Silchar: Four people, including a four-year-old girl, were killed and three were injured in four road accidents across the Barak Valley.Four-year-old Ritika Das was crushed by a mini truck outside Assam minister Kaushik Rai’s residence at Fulertal in Cachar on Friday morning. Ritika, from Devipur village, had accompanied her mother to collect clothes being distributed among underprivileged women ahead of Durga Puja.Police said the mother and daughter were waiting outside a shop across the highway because of the crowd near the minister’s residence. Around 9.30 am, Ritika ran onto the road after spotting an acquaintance and came under the truck’s rear wheels. She was taken to Silchar Medical College and Hospital, where doctors declared her dead. Police arrested the driver, Mithun Tanti (41), and seized the vehicle. Rai expressed grief over the death.In another accident, Tilottama Das of Debendranagar in Badarpurghat died after an e-rickshaw overturned at Badarpur Chowmatha on Friday. Residents alleged it skidded on concrete blocks laid on an unfinished road. She died while being shifted to SMCH from Srigouri Govt Hospital.Three people were injured when a truck, an autorickshaw and a parked stone-laden dumper collided near Paschim Saptagram LP School in Dholai on NH-306 early on Friday.On Thursday evening, motorcycle riders Shivam Nath and Bittu Lohar of Cheragi village were killed when an unidentified vehicle hit their motorcycle at Phanairband in Sribhumi district.
