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Kolkata: Five people, including three schoolteachers from West Bengal, were killed on Sunday when their Bolero SUV collided with a truck near Chilphi Valley in Kabirdham district of Chhattisgarh.

The group of 10 people was travelling from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh to Bilaspur when the accident occurred near Akalgharia turn.

The deceased have been identified as Poppy Burma (44), Anwesha Som (40), Parama Mitra Bhattacharya (42), Parama’s younger daughter Adrity (10), and the car’s driver. Five others sustained injuries and are undergoing treatment in hospital.

The group had set out for Bandhavgarh in Madhya Pradesh on Monday. All three teachers had previously worked at Dankuni Shree Ramkrishna Vidyashram in Hooghly. Parama, a mathematics teacher, joined Binodini Girls’ High Schoo

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