Three persons died and three others were injured when a tractor overturned in front of the FCI godown at Minigaan village under Kashinagar block in Gajapati district on Wednesday.
The six labourers after loading four cement poles in the tractor from the District Rural Water Supply office at Ranipentha village were going towards Kashinagar. When the tractor overturned at Minigaan village, labourers M Rajesh (32) and N Sudha (34) died on the spot. Four injured were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) here. During treatment, one of them, l Rama (35), succumbed to his injuries.
Two seriously injured persons were later sent to the Brahmapur Hospital.
In another incident, a person died and eight others sustained injuries when a bus collided with a bike at lathikata on NH-143 in Sundargarh district on Wednesday.
The bus going from Rourkela to Bonei overturned after it collided with a bike coming from opposite direction near the Suidhi bridge on the NH-143 at lathikata. Eight injured passengers of the bus and the bike rider were sent to the Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH). Doctors at the hospital declared bike rider Ram Ratan Prasad Nirlala (51) brought dead. Police seized both the bike and the bus from the spot. Search is on to nab the bus driver, who is absconding, said ASI KK Sethi.