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Buxar: All government and private schools remained closed on Wednesday in protest against death of an Intermediate student in a road accident on October 18 in Buxar district.
An Intermediate student, Nishant Pathak, 18, son of Jai Prakash Pathak of village Majhwari under Simari police station in Buxar district was crushed to death by a speeding truck near Vishnu Temple on Purana Bhojpuri-Bikramganj main road in Buxar district on October 18 morning when he was going to a coaching institute on his bicycle.
After the accident, hundreds of students blocked the Ara-Buxar main road near Dumaon police station and raised slogans against police officials. Later, SDPO, Kamlapati Singh, gave Rs. 20,000 to the family members of the deceased. Nishant Pathak was Intermediate first year student at the Town Degree Inter College at Dumraon. An FIR has been lodged with the police but no arrest has so far been made in this regard.