A police Constable, Basata Gagarai, died in a road accident on Thursday night near Dimiria Chhak on NH-149.
While Gagari was returning from the Rengali police station by motorcycle to his home, his bike collided with a cow and he fell down on the road being critically injured.
Locals informed the Pallahara police who rushed him to the Pallahara hospital by a police vehicle. But the doctor declared him brought dead. Dhenkanal MP Mahesh Sahoo and Pallahara MLA Mukesh Pal have offered their condolences to Gagarai’s fam]ily.