Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaKhunti is the district headquarters town of Khunti district in Jharkhand, with the Karra and Torpa blocks around it. This guide puts the emergency numbers, the Sadar Hospital, the fire station and the main local risks on one page, with dated examples from the town and the district.
Checked 8 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: State police emergency number. The district portal does not print it, so if it does not connect call 100 · 101: Printed on the district Helpline page. If it does not connect, call 112 · 108: Ambulance service printed on the district portal. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Printed on the district Helpline page, also reachable through 112
Print the Khunti emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers. This guide has no local numbers yet, so there are blank lines to write your local fire station, police station and nearest hospital, and your family contacts.
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Checked 8 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
On the night of 5 November 2026, an 18-wheel truck struck people standing beside the Karra to Torpa main road in the Karra police station area, after a scooter rider had gone off the road near a turn. Seven people died and one was injured, and we cover it in a case study.
On a Friday in February 2024, two goods trucks met head on at Chanpi village in Karra in dense fog, and four people died. On the night of 22 October 2025, three people on a two-wheeler were run over by an unidentified vehicle on the Torpa to Khunti to Simdega road, and they were found only late at night.
On the evening of 3 July 2021, five members of one family died at Dahutoli village in Karra block when lightning struck the tree where they had taken shelter from rain. In June 2026, a young man was killed by lightning while playing cricket in the district, and the state disaster authority lists lightning among the common hazards of Jharkhand.
The state disaster profile names Khunti among only four districts for crowd or stampede disasters. Large church, market and festival gatherings in the town and the blocks are the places where this risk sits.
The state fire list shows a single station row for Khunti and none for Karra or Torpa, although the state profile rates fire risk in Khunti as low. Keep extinguishers in shops and godowns, a second way out of every floor, and give the caller a landmark when you ring 112.
1 stations. Tap Call to ring the station office.
| Station | Area | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Khunti Fire Station | Khunti district · Khunti | Call9304953410 |
One station row for Khunti appears in the state fire list from 2020, with an office phone and no street address, and the district portal names a District Fire Brigade Office without a number. No station is printed for Karra or Torpa. In an emergency, call 112 or 101 first; station lines are office numbers.
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