The Rourkela Government Railway Police recovered beheaded bodies of a young man and a girl from railway tracks over Brahmani river at Panposh near here on Tuesday.
The police have started investigation suspecting that the youth and the girl committed suicide over love matters.
Being informed, a team led by GRP IIC M Hansda went to the spot at around 11 am and found that the head of the girl was floating on the river water and the youth’s head lying at a little distance from his body.
The deceased were identified as Ajay Kumar Oram (17) of Tolibahali under the lahunipada police station and Sonali Oram (17) of Tulsibahal under the Bisra police limits in Sundargarh district.
According to family members, Ajay and Sonali were earlier studying together in the lahunipada High School. After passing Class X exams, Ajay was studying in a +2 college at lahunipada and Sonali in the SKD Junior Women’s College here.