Class-VIII student kidnapped in K’pada
Kendrapada: Three miscreants allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old boy, Sanjay Sahu, after putting drug-lace clothes on his face at Benipur village temple under the Nikirai police limits in Kendrapada district. The miscreants came in a car and took away the boy, a Class-VIII student of the Benipur High school. The kidnappers later threw the boy off the car near Matakatapur Chowk on the NH-5(A) and fled away with the car. A PCR van of Balichandrapur while patrolling found the boy in unconscious stage. The boy, a native of Puri district, was staying at his uncle Baisnab Sahu’s house at Benipur.
B’ngir DRDA PD Office clerk held taking bribe
Balangir: Vigilance officials on Thursday arrested senior clerk Om Prakash Kumbhar at the office of the DRDA PD Balangir for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs32,000 from one Srikantra Ray of Beherapalli village at Balangir Town. Kumbhar demanded the bribe to persuade the selection committee of his office to provide peon job to Ray and his brother. later, a trap was laid and accused Kumbhar was caught red-handed by a Vigilance team at his office room.
Honeybees create panic in Koraput
Koaraput: A swam of honeybees created panic among the residents near the District Court at Jeypore on Thursday. Some honeybees stung a few staffs of the court and other people, who were present at the court premises. They were immediately taken to the Sub-Divisional Hospital. Seriously-injured clerical staff Tribikram Mishra was later shifted to the Koraput District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) for further treatment.
18 inured in bus-lorry collision in K’put
Koraput: At least 18 persons were injured when a private bus carrying them had a head-on collision with a lorry near Deoghat on the Koraput-Jeypore road on Thursday. The injured persons were sent to the Koraput District Headquarters Hospital (DHH). The bus was travelling to Damanjodi from Malkangiri. The condition of the bus driver is stated to be very critical.