Six persons were killed and two others critically injured as the vehicle in which they were travelling turned turtle near Neulapur under the Dharmasala police station in Jajpur district on Thursday.
A group of tourists from West Bengal were on their way by a Mahindra Scorpio SUV to Puri. The vehicle overturned killing three occupants on the spot. Three other passengers succumbed to their injuries at a local hospital.
Two other co-passengers who sustained grievous injuries were shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack when their conditions deteriorated at the Barchana Community Health Centre (CHC). The deceased included two women and a minor child.