Four persons died and eight others were injured, four of them seriously, when a Bolero jeep by which they were travelling collided with a roadside tree near a bridge in Bargarh district on Saturday morning. According to police, some people of Chipilima village in Sambalpur district had gone to Barpalli in Bargarh district by the jeep to witness the Sitalasasthi Yatra on Friday night. On their return to their village, the driver lost control of the vehicle near the bridge at Balijuri village on the Bargarh-Balangir road and the jeep skidded off the road and hit the roadside tree.
All the four deceased died on the spot. Following information, police rushed to the spot and admitted the eight injured persons at the Bargarh District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), from where four injured persons were shifted to the VSS Medical College Hospital at Burla as their condition became further critical. The four bodies were later taken to the Bargarh DHH for postmortem. The identities of the deceased were not known till last reports came in.