2 college students killed in bus-bike collision in Odisha’s Rayagada

A road accident in the Ramanaguda police limits of Rayagada district claimed the lives of two college students on Thursday morning. A private passenger bus and a motorcycle collided head-on, resulting in the death of Debendra Sabar and Bishnu Sabar from Gudari.

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According to local sources, both were Plus II first-year students from Badisola under Kolnara block. The mishap occurred when they were travelling to college on a motorcycle. Following the accident, the two severely injured students were rushed to the Ramanaguda community health centre (CHC). However, doctors at the facility declared them ‘dead’ on arrival.

On being informed, Ramanaguda police reached the spot and have initiated an investigation into the circumstances that led to the fatal collision.

No comments were received from local police or the victims’ families in this regard.

Worth mentioning, earlier in another incident on November 8, two girl students of Kanak Manjari Women’s College had lost their lives after being hit by a speeding car near Barigaon on National Highway-20 in Keonjhar’s Anandapur.

The victims from Belbahali village had gone to their college as usual in the morning. After finishing their classes, the two friends had been returning home on bicycles when the car allegedly lost control and rammed into them. Both students had sustained grievous injuries and died on the spot.

Following the incident, tension had gripped the locality as residents staged a road blockade, demanding strict action against the car driver and adequate compensation for the victims’ families.

In the past five years, before March 2025, the State had witnessed an annual average of 11,366 road accidents, injuring nearly 10,008 people and claiming around 5,433 lives.