Two motorcyclists were killed when a truck hit their bike at the Military Chhack under the Jajpur Road police station in Jajpur district on Wednesday.
The deceased were identified as Mrutyunjay Biswal (33) of village Ramachandrapur and his friend Dilip Panda (34). Both died on the spot. Biswal was working in the Jindal steel plant at Kalinganagar.
The driver managed to flee from the spot. The police seized the bodies and sent them to the Danagadi Government hospital for autopsy, said police station IIC Aswani Kumar Sahoo.