Two persons, including a woman, were killed in a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a truck near Kantanali Chhak on the Dhenkanal bypass road on Wednesday afternoon.
The deceased male was identified as Rakhal Samal from Jajpur while the identity of the woman was yet to be ascertained.
Rakhal along with the woman was going towards Angul by a bike when the two-wheeler was hit by the truck coming from the opposite direction. Rakhal and the woman died on the spot. Eyewitnesses said a call to Rakhal’s mobile phone immediately following the accident revealed his identity. He was working with a finance company.
After receiving information, police reached the spot and sent the bodies for postmortem. The truck driver was arrested.