In a quite shocking incident, three engineers were burnt alive in a road accident near Khordha town in the wee hours of Saturday. A car carrying the victims was on its way from Bhubaneswar to Brahmapur when it collided head-on with a truck near Malipada square at about 3 am. In the meanwhile, another truck, coming from behind, rammed into the car causing it to catch fire. And it happened so suddenly that the three engineers inside the car could not come out and were burnt alive inside it.
The deceased were identified as Samir Das, Himanshu Panigrahi and Dilip Rath, all of them over 50 years of age and natives of Nilakantha Nagar in the Bijipur area of Brahmapur city. All of them were Assistant Engineers in the Water Resources Department. They were heading for Brahmapur after attending a social function in Bhubaneswar, reports said. The bodies, after the postmortem at the Khordha District Headquarters Hospital, would be handed over to the family members, police said.