A person was killed and another severely injured when a cement-loaded truck ran over a motorcycle at Bomikhal under the Saheed Nagar police limits in the city on Friday. An irate mob damaged the glass panes of the truck and also allegedly attacked a police van.
The deceased was identified as Narendra Mallick of Baigumpha under the Khajuriapada police limits in Kandhamal district. He was working here at a private company near Bomikhal and staying at Jayadev Vihar. When Mallick, the pillion rider, along with his bike driver friend Harekrushna Swain was coming to his office, the truck ran over the bike.
Mallick died on the spot while the condition of Swain was critical and he was admitted at the Capital Hospital. Meanwhile, truck driver Saleem was arrested from the spot and forwarded to court.
Notably, two persons had been killed and two were injured, one critically, when a truck ran over three bikes at the Rasulgarh square here on July 29 this year. The Rasulgarh-to-Bomikhal area has turned to be a deathtrap for motorcycle riders.
It is violation of a circular not to allow heavy vehicles between 6 am to 10 pm to check traffic rush and accidents on the highway inside the city, said the angry mob.