Tension prevailed at Sector 21 sawmill square here on Sunday as irate locals and students blocked the Ring Road and attacked police personnel following death of two persons, including a college student, in a road accident.
A Plus Two student of the Ispat Autonomous College, Manish Kumar Jaiswal, and a 60-year-old man were killed after a car ran over them at Sawmill Chowk on Saturday evening. Demanding immediate arrest of the accused, hundreds of locals along with the students of the college staged a demonstration on the Ring Road in the morning. They blocked the road by burning tyres.
When police, after getting information rushed to the spot to clear the route, the locals indulged in heavy brick-batting in which three policemen was injured.
The mob also vented its ire on two police vehicles and smashed them with sticks and boulders.
0Rourkela SP Uma Shankar Dash and other senior officials rushed to the spot to control the situation. later, police dispersed the agitators and cleared the road for vehicular traffic.