At least four persons died and three others sustained critical injuries after a car by which they were travelling collided against a roadside tree on the Karanjia-Anandapur road near Bankhidi in Keonjhar district on Saturday morning.
The mishap took place at around 6 am while the victims, residents of Salabani and Sainkula villages under the Anandapur police limits in the district, were returning home after attending wedding of their relative’s daughter at Khuntapasi village in Thakurmunda.
The driver of the car lost control over the wheels, following which the vehicle rammed into the roadside tree, killing four on the spot and injuring three others.
The deceased were identified as Manorama Tripathy, Chinna Panda, Baikuntha Panda and laxmipriya Panda.
The injured ones, Raghunath Panda, Manas Panda and Ganeswar Mishra, were admitted to the Anandapur hospital after being rescued by locals and police. They were later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack for better treatment.