In a tragic incident, two women of a family were killed and another woman was critically injured as a mud wall collapsed over them while they were watching a TV serial in their house at Sanagara village under Kendrapada district’s Pattamundai police station on Thursday night.
According to police, the unfortunate incident occurred in one Surendra Swain’s house. Swain’s family members were staying in a mud-walled and polythene-roofed house since their pucca house was under construction.
On Thursday, 60-year-old Fula Swain and her two sister-in-laws, Asalata Swain (32) and Santilata Swain (45), were watching an Odia serial when a wall collapsed over them. Villagers rescued them and rushed them to the Pattamundai CHC where Fula and Asalata declared received dead. Santilata was shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital, police said.
later, the police sent the two bodies to the Ali CHC for autopsy. Sepulchral silence gripped the village atmosphere on Saraswati Puja day over the untimely demise of the two women.