Medininagar, March 18 An eight-year-old boy died after being hit by a speeding car in the Palamu district of Jharkhand on Wednesday, police said.
The incident triggered protests, with angry locals blocking a road. When police tried to disperse them, a mob allegedly attacked the personnel, injuring three police officers, officials said.
The accident occurred near Amwatoli in Padma village, under the Manatu police station limits, when the boy was returning home from school on foot.
Officer-in-Charge Ashok Toppo said the boy was taken to Medininagar Medical College and Hospital, where he succumbed to injuries.
After the post-mortem, family members and villagers brought the body back and staged a road blockade on the Manatu-Patan-Tarhasi main road.
Police reached the spot and attempted to persuade the protesters to lift the blockade, when the mob allegedly attacked Assistant Sub-Inspector Suresh Chandra Yadav, Santosh Singh and another police officer, injuring them, he said.
The injured personnel were treated at a private hospital, Toppo said.
The blockade was lifted after about two hours following police intervention.
The driver of the car is absconding, and efforts are on to trace him, police said.