Chatra: A 60-year-old woman and a young man died in two separate hit-and-run cases in the district since late Friday night.60-year-old Kanti Devi had gone out for a morning walk at around 6 am on Saturday when a speeding truck crushed her near the gate of Hunterganj police station, resulting in her death. The truck dragged Kanti, the mother of a local Congress party official, for about 200 feet, after which the vehicle stopped. He died on the spot. The driver fled from the spot with the truck.Angry locals blocked NH-22 for two hours demanding the arrest of the absconding driver and compensation to Kanti’s family. Prabhat Kumar, in-charge of Hunterganj police station, said, “The truck has been identified and will also be seized. Efforts are on to arrest the driver as well.”On Friday, 19-year-old Mohammad Rehan Afridi died after being hit by a speeding pickup van near Tapej on the Chatra-Itkhori main road.Afridi, a resident of Mufti Colony of Azad Nagar, was returning from Hazaribagh.