Mystery shrouded the death of three truck drivers, who were stranded in the State due to the lockdown. All of them had fallen sick in front of the Sakthi Sugars Limited at Haripur here on Thursday night.
One of them died on the spot while two others died at the District Headquarters Hospital here and the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, respectively. All deceased are natives of Bihar and were stranded near the sugar mill.
Police said five trucks were stranded at the spot and their drivers were supposed to carry spirit to a liquor manufacturing unit in Khordha
Town Police Station IIC Gyanaranjan Samal said the deaths were suspected to be cases of food poisoning. Further investigation in this connection was on.