Five persons were killed and four others seriously injured when a Bolero jeep in which they were travelling collided with a roadside tree at Bijadihi near Kamakhyanagar in Dhenkanal district on late Thursday night.
According to police, a group of villagers had gone to attend a marriage feast in the evening. On their return, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which hit a roadside tree.While all the five deceased died on the spot, the four inured persons were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital here, where their conditions were stated to be critical. Meanwhile, the Kamakhyanagar police sent the dead bodies for postmortem. The identities of the deceased have not been ascertained so far.