A person was killed and a police constable was injured in separate road accidents in the district on Sunday.
In the first incident, one Brajabandhu Das of Dihakarada village under the Kakatpur police limits had gone to Garei village in Naugaon block to attend a wedding. Brajabandhu with his two friends in a bike had gone to the Naugaon market and while returning to his relative house they lost control over the bike and hit a road site tree at Tentei Post Office Chhak on the Jagatsinghpur–Naugaon road.
While Brajabandhu received serious head injuries, the other two were unhurt. Brajabandhu was rushed to the Naugaon hospital but doctor declared him brought dead. Police have registered a case and sent the body for postmortem.
In another mishap, a traffic constable was hit by an unidentified vehicle on the Tirtol-Kolara road while he was on his way to Cuttack in his bike on Sunday. The injured cop was identified as Prashant Kumar Mohanty of Dhanua village under Kolara Panchayat.
Mohanty was rushed to the Manijanga hospital and later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital after his condition turned critical.