In a highly tragic incident, as many as three students of a coaching centre, including two girls, died of snakebite at Nischintapur village under the Baria police limits in Keonjhar district on Saturday night.
According to reports, the reptile bit four students of the residential coaching centre when they were sleeping.
As the matter came to the fore, all of them were rushed to the Keonjhar District Headquarters Hospital, where three of the students were declared dead.
The survivor was shifted the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack for better treatment.
A pall of gloom descended on the locality after the untimely death of the students.
Notably, a few days back, a girl student of Manasi Mess at College Road in Keonjhar, had also died of snakebite.
PHCs and CHCs lack snakebite treatment facilities and patients die on the way for treatment in the District Headquarters Hospital.