A Class-X student collapsed to death when he fell off his bicycle on his way to school to appear at the annual HSC Examinations at Bhanra village under Kirmira block in Jharsuguda district on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Ishwar Rohidas of the village.
Reports said Iswar was on the way to Bagdihi High School to appear the examinations, all of a sudden, he fell off his cycle and become unconscious.
Seeing him fall, passersby called up an ambulance. Later, he was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) here, where doctors declared him dead.
Ishwar’s father alleged that his son died due to a delay in ambulance service. “Though the ambulance was called in immediately after the incident, it took a long time to reach the spot for which my I lost my son,” said the bereaved father. Later, HE lodged a complaint with police alleging the same.
In another incident, a body of a 14-year-old tribal student of Darlipada Sevashram of Komna block in Nuapada district, who had fled from the school prayer class on Sunday evening, was found hanging from a tree in a nearby jungle.
Sumanta Sabar was reading in Class-IX. As informed by the school teachers, he ran away from the school during prayer. The teachers searched for him till late evening but failed not find him. He was traced by some students on Monday morning when they were going towards the jungle for easing themselves.
The Komna police seized the body for postmortem and began an investigation into the incident. The boy’s parents complained that he has been murdered.