Three bodies were recovered from a car in Bargarh district which were washed away in flood water on Monday.
The bodies were identified as Anadi Kunar (45) of Barpali, Malay Mahamallik (35) and Basanti Behera (35) of Kusirda village under Sohela police station limits.
The family members of the all the three deceased were unable to know their whereabouts after they drove away in a car on Monday. But on the bridge of the Uttali river near Talpadar village in Bijepur-Padmapur road, their car was washed away in strong current up to a distance of 500 metre from the bridge.
Due to receding of water on Wednesday, the locals saw the car and informed police. The police recovered the bodies from the car and sent them for postmortem. The bodies were in total decomposed state.
Notably, the deceased were not related to one another. Even their family members were ignorant as to their movement on the fateful day. Hence the incident has raised much suspicion.