Resident of Balangir on Wednesday woke up to a tragic road accident in which a school student was killed by potato-laden truck. Irate locals burnt the truck near the All-India Radio station on the Balangir-Titilagarh road.
Partha Mishra (13), a student of Class-VIII of the Balangir Central School, was going to the school at around 7 am when he was hit by the truck near the AIR station.
local people immediately shifted Partha to the District Headquarters Hospital here, and as his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to the VSS Medical College Hospital at Burla, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Agitated local residents squatted on the road demanding construction of a bypass road. “We have been demanding a bypass road since long, but the Government is not listening to our plea. Until a bypass is constructed, such fatal accidents would recur in future,” said Gopalji Pangrahi of the Balangir Action Committee.