Two persons died and two others sustained critical injuries in a head-on collision between two motorcycles at Patuli Chhak in the Korei area of the district on Wednesday.
According to reports, a youth and two women were returning home by a motorcycle after watching an opera while a man was heading towards Kalinganagar by his motorbike in the morning. The two-wheelers collided at Patuli Chhak, killing the two men on the spot and leaving the two women critically injured. The injured were initially admitted to the Jajpur Road Community Health Centre and later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack as their conditions deteriorated.