A five-year-old girl was killed and 25 other passengers sustained injuries when a speeding Puri-bound bus hit a truck head on at Pathuria Chhack on National High way-5 in Jajpur district on Thursday. Deceased Titili Das was daughter of Gopinath Das of village Kaptipada.
The 25 injured persons were first admitted in the local Government hospital at Panikoili. later, 15 of them were shifted to SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack as their conditions worsened.