A Hotel Management trainee girl was killed on the spot, while her father and brother sustained injuries after a speeding truck hit their motorbike from behind near the Post Office Chhak here on Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Sangeeta Swain (21) alias lovely of village Dasabatia under Balikuda area. The injured are undergoing treatment at the district headquarters hospital here. Tragedy struck the trio while they were going towards their village from Jagatsinghpur bus stand on a motor cycle around 8 pm.
Earlier, Sarat Swain, a retired Army personal and his son Satya Brata Swain had been to the bus stand to receive lovely who returned from Chennai, her workplace. After the mishap, tension erupted in the area with hundreds of locals staging road block, which was lifted after police and Magistrate rushed to the spot and pacified the agitators. The police have seized the truck, and its driver Binod Kumar Das has surrendered before the police.