Bantwal: A pillion rider killed and rider seriously injured when a speeding truck collided with their bike at Panantabail in the Bantwal taluk on Sunday.

The deceased has been identified as Prashant (25), a resident of Balthila in BR Nagar, and injured as Yogesh (30) of Barimar. The injured has been admitted to a hospital in Mangaluru.

An Andhra Pradesh-based lorry collided with the two-wheeler at Panantabail cross. It has been learnt that the incident occurred when the bike riders were moving for their work.

Bantwal traffic police have registered a case regarding the incident.

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Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.

Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.

The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.

"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.

The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.