Tag: Accident

Odisha tourists get stuck in dam after makeshift raft breaks 
Odisha tourists get stuck in dam after makeshift raft breaks 

Over 15 tourists were stranded in the middle of a dam in Balasore district on Monday after a makeshift bamboo raft they were being ferried on fell to pieces. 

  • Monday, 01 January 2024
Two persons killed, four others critical in separate road accidents in Odisha 
Two persons killed, four others critical in separate road accidents in Odisha 

Tragedy struck several families on the last day of 2023 as two persons killed and four reported critical in separate road accidents in Odisha. 

  • Sunday, 31 December 2023
Police van meets with accident
Police van meets with accident at Bangiriposhi ghati, 10 personnel injured

All the injured have been rushed to Bangiriposhi hospital. Around 20 police personnel were travelling in the vehicle when the accident occured. 

  • Monday, 18 December 2023
2 injured after being 'hit by ambulance' inside Odisha hospital premises 
2 injured after being 'hit by ambulance' inside Odisha hospital premises 

A woman and her sick one-and-a-half-year-old nephew suffered critical injuries after an ambulance allegedly hit them inside the new district headquarters hospital at Gelpur in Bhadrak on Sunday.

  • Sunday, 17 December 2023
Body of accident victim exhumed from grave for insurance claim in Odisha
Body of accident victim exhumed from grave for insurance claim in Odisha

Prahllad Nayak, a resident of Purunapani died in an accident on December 7. Police were clueless about the death. The family members of the deceased brought the body from the hospital and later buried it. The post-mortem of the body was not conducted.

  • Sunday, 10 December 2023
Two youths knocked down by bus in Odisha’s Kalahandi
Two youths knocked down by bus in Odisha’s Kalahandi

As per reports, Kari and Jagannath were going on a bike from Junagarh to their village. As they neared Chilakpur under Junagarh police limits, a private bus coming from Kalampur towards Cuttack hit the bike from the rear. The two died on the spot. 

  • Monday, 04 December 2023
Tractor overturned near Patrapur area in Ganjam
2 dead, 6 critical after tractor overturns in Odisha’s Ganjam

Two persons were killed while six others were critically injured after a tractor in which they were travelling in overturned in Ganjam district on Tuesday. 

  • Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Car mishap in Bhubaneswar: BJD MLA claims another vehicle hit his car 
Car mishap in Bhubaneswar: BJD MLA claims another vehicle hit his car 

Following the accident, the owner of the car filed an FIR at the police station, alleging that four to five youths who were inside the MLA’s car had beaten them, apart from giving threats.   

  • Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Car knocks woman devotee dead near Bhubaneswar Lingaraj temple 
Car knocks woman devotee dead near Bhubaneswar Lingaraj temple 

Sulochana Mohanty and her husband Jurinath Bebarta had come from Figapahandi to Lingaraj temple to offer Paya Shraddha last evening

  • Monday, 13 November 2023
Mobile phone battery explodes in mobile repairing shop in Odisha’s Dhenkanal
Mobile phone battery explodes in mobile repairing shop in Odisha’s Dhenkanal

To repair the phone, the shop owner removed the battery and placed it on the table. Then there were five customers at the shop.  Before anyone could understand anything, the battery exploded and caught fire.

  • Sunday, 05 November 2023
Questions galore over luxury car involved in accident in Bhubaneswar 
Questions galore over luxury car involved in accident in Bhubaneswar 

The luxury car with registration number OD-23K 0006 reportedly belongs to a company in which Bishal Kumar Das, the son of former Odisha minister Late Naba Das, is a director. There is also pictorial evidence of Bishal Das using this vehicle in the past.   

  • Thursday, 02 November 2023
Dussehra celebration turns tragic as 4 killed in road mishap
Dussehra celebration turns tragic as 4 killed in road mishap in Nuapada

The three injured were admitted to the local hospital and after later shifted to Nuapada District Headquarters Hospital after their condition deteriorated. 

  • Wednesday, 25 October 2023
One dead, 14 injured as auto rickshaw rams into tree
One dead, 14 injured as auto rickshaw rams into tree

On the day of Dussehra, when festivities were all around, 15 people from Bisipalli area of Bargarh district did not have an iota of idea that their trip to have a darshan of the Goddess at Huma shrine would be fraught with danger.

  • Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Two women of family killed, 6 critical after car gets crushed between trucks in Mayurbhanj 
Two women of family killed, 4 critical after car gets crushed between trucks in Mayurbhanj 

Seven members of a family from Kharagpur in West Bengal had purchased a new Innova car with their bonus money. They had come to Dwarashunighat for the puja of their new car.

  • Saturday, 21 October 2023
Odisha woman boards wrong train, jumps and dies; close shave for kids
Odisha woman boards wrong train, jumps and dies; close shave for two kids 

The woman and her two kids – one aged 4 and the other 2 – had come to Bolangir for some work. They were waiting at Bolangir station to board a local train.

  • Friday, 20 October 2023
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