PNS n JAJPUR/BAlESWAR/RAYAGADA
In a tragic accident, four persons of a family were killed and three others critically injured when an auto rickshaw in which they were travelling collided with a goods-laden truck near Gandhi Chhak on the Chandikhol-Paradip road in the wee hours on Friday.
According to reports, the deceased belonged to the Mahanga area of Cuttack district and that they had gone to the Maha Binayak temple near Chandikhol to observe Jagar on the occasion of Shivratri. While one of the passengers died on the spot, the three others succumbed to their injuries at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack. The conditions of the three injured persons were critical, sources said. Of the four killed, three are children.
Two persons died and another was injured in a head-on collision between two motorcycles at Chhanapur on Thursday night. The deceased were Anadi Patra (42), an employee of the Birla Tyres and Santosh Sahu (36). Injured Ramaniranjan Biswal is undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack, where his condition is stated to be critical. The incident took place when Patra and Biswal were returning from the plant by a bike, which collided with Sahu’s bike, which was coming at a high speed from Remuna.
Two members of an opera party died on the spot and five were seriously injured when a bus carrying 40 opera partiers slipped into a hill gorge near Bastipally in Rayagada district in the wee hours of Friday. The bus was coming from Jaypatna of Kalahandi district to Kalyansinghpur in Rayagada district.