At least 30 tourists were injured, five of them seriously, when a tourist bus in which they were travelling, overturned near Soro on Tuesday morning.
The ill-fated bus was on the way to Puri from Raniganj in West Bengal carrying 70 passengers when the driver lost control of the vehicle near Soro. As a result, the bus overturned and fell into a roadside ditch.
locals rushed to the spot and rescued the injured passengers, who were later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack.The conditions of five passengers were stated to be critical.