The two women devotees, who died in a stampede in the Grand Road on Saturday, were identified as Susila Samantray (70), wife of Daitary Samantray of Barapada village under Kendrapada district’s Pattamundai police station and Nirmala Baral (50), wife of Seshdhar Baral of Madhyakhand under Nayagarh district’s Sarankul police limits.
Similarly, the one, who downed in sea, was identified as Sunanda Rout, 35, of Keonjhar. The bodies were handed over to their respective families after postmortem on Sunday, police said.
Meanwhile, the six devotees, who had been injured in the stampede, were shifted from Puri hospital to the SCB Medical College Hospital in critical condition. While four of them, including a woman, were admitted into the ICU, one of them was yet to be identified.
SJTA Chief Administrator Suresh Chandra Mohapatra has asked police and hospital authorities to prepare documents to claim insured money of `5 lakh for each death from the New India Assurance Company.