Two persons were killed and about 20 others injured as a bus by which they were travelling from Bhubaneswar for a picnic at Gorakhnath in Jagatsinghpur district collided head on with a hyva truck near Kamarapada in the Salepur area in Cuttack district at about 7 am on Friday.
The deceased were the driver of the hyva truck and the helper of the bus.
The picnickers were from Sailashree Vihar in Bhubaneswar. The bus and the truck overturned after the collision. While the two died on the spot, 20 passengers, who sustained injuries, were admitted to a local hospital. Among the 20, seven critically-injured were later shifted to the SCB Medical College Hospital her
Meanwhile, the Kishannagar police reached the spot and began an investigation into the incident.