Popular Bengali folk music singer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya died in a road accident at Palsit in West Bengal’s Burdwan district of India on Tuesday. He was 56.

According to Indian news media Kalikaprasad was travelling along with four members of his Bangla band, ‘Dohar’, when their car was hit by a truck and plunged into a shallow waterbody in Hooghly district at about 9:00am.

The singer, also a resident of South Kolkata, was on way to a school function in Birbhum when the incident took place.

Kalikaprasad was rescued from the mangled vehicle along with other fellows and were taken to Burdwan Medical College and Hospital where the Silchar-born singer was declared dead.

Four others were undergoing treatment at the hospital and the condition of three of them was stated to be critical, reports Indian news agency PTI.

Besides popularising folk songs of rural Bengal among the present generation in the albums of his band ‘Dohar’, he had also lent his voice in films like Jaatishwar, Moner Manush, and Bhuban Majhi.