Two persons were killed in a road mishap near the Khamarapada Chowk on NH-5(A) under the Sadar police station in Kendrapada district when the motorbike by which they were travelling was hit by a truck on Sunday evening.
The deceased were identified as Dipti Ranjan Swain of the Patkura area in the district and Paritosh Chakravorty of Panikoili in Jajpur district.
The mishap occurred when the duo were on their way to Paradip. Getting information, the Sadar police rushed to the spot and sent the bodies to the District Headquarters Hospital(DHH) for postmortem.
However, police failed to arrest the truck driver, as he had sped away from the spot with vehicle after the mishap.