Two persons died on the spot on Tuesday when the motorbike by which they were travelling collided with a petrol tanker near Alabanka on the Paradip-Daitary Expressway under the Derabish police station in the district.
The deceased have been identified as Khageswar Swain (38) and Ajay Kumar Swain (42) of Deshpur village under Balia GP of Derabish block, informed Kendrapada SP Dayanidhi Gochhait.
The duo had gone to attend the rally of ruling BJD candidate Manorama Sahu for filing of her nomination papers for Zilla Parishad Zone-12 at the Sub-Collector office and while returning to their village the mishap took place.
later, the Derabish police rushed to the spot and sent the dead bodies for postmortem to the District Headquarters Hospital, informed SP Gochhait. Notably, 15 days back, the father of deceased Khageswar Swain had passed away.