In a shocking incident, a 59-year-old man and his daughter were killed when their two-wheeler collided with a pickup van on the Cuttack-Chandbali road under the Jagatpur police limits early on Thursday morning.
The deceased were identified as Anubhav Samal of Satyabhamapur village and his 40-year-old daughter Anjali Swain.
As per reports, the father-daughter duo was headed towards the railway station at around 3 am when the pickup van coming from the Cuttack side collided head on with their two-wheeler. Both fell and were seriously injured.
On getting information, police reached the spot and rushed them to the nearest hospital, but doctors declared them dead on arrival. Meanwhile, both the vehicles were seized and the bodies sent for postmortem. A case has been registered in this regard and a probe is underway, the Jagatpur PS IIC informed.