As many as six residents from Odisha were killed while another person was injured in a road accident near Manjusa in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.
As per reports, all the victims were of a family in Bhubaneswar and identified as Trilochan Jena, Banita Jena, Ritu Jena, Adarsh Jena, Pratap Jena and another person whose identity was yet to be ascertained. The injured was admitted to a Palasa hospital in AP’s Srikakulam district.
The victims were returning from Visakhapatnam after visiting the Narasinghanath Temple in Simhachalam when the car by which they were travelling rammed against a culvert at around 7 am, overturned and fell into a canal.
Later, the completely-damaged car was recovered from the spot.