Two persons were killed and seven others sustained critical injuries as the car by which they were travelling collided head on with a truck near Baniapada in Dhenkanal district on Monday morning.
The deceased and injured were identified as employees of the Jindal Thermal Power limited.
According to reports, nine staffs of the company had gone to Kendrapada from Angul by a Bolero SUV to attend marriage ceremony of one of their friends.
While returning, the driver of the car tried to overtake a vehicle during which a speeding Hyva tipper approaching from the opposite direction hit the car.
All of them were admitted to the Dhenkanal District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), where Pabitra Mohan Das and Satyanarayan Mishra were declared dead.
Three of the injured were later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack while four others underwent treatment at the DHH.