A doctor was killed and 12 persons sustained injuries, four of them critically, as a car and a bus collided at Andhari Chhak under the Korai police station in Jajpur district on Saturday morning.
Dr Lalatendu Jena of the Steel City Medical, Kalinganagar was driving his car on National Highway 215 towards Andhari when a bus coming from Rairangpur collided with the car. The intensity of the accident was so high that the car was completely damaged and Dr Jena died on the spot. The bus also turned turtle there. All the 13 passengers were rushed to the Jajpur Road Medical. However, four of them were shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack as their condition deteriorated.