Two persons were killed and another was critically injured in a road mishap occurred near Tikarpanga chowk on Paradip-Daitary Expressway under Kendrapada district’s Marshaghai police station late on Saturday night.
The deceased were identified as Majistar Baitha(38) and Md Muktar Hussain (45) of the Jagannath colony, Paradip. Injured Md Yakub Ansari (60), father-in-law of deceased Muktar, has been admitted in a private hospital in Cuttack.
The mishap occurred when they were returning home in a car. A speeding truck hit the car from behind and fled away. They were taken to the Kendrapada District Headquarters Hospital soon but two of them succumbed to injuries there.