Tag: Road Mishap

Balasore: People often suffer due to stray cattle on roads but the roaming of a bull on the Balasore road has helped police nab illegal liquor traders and seize more than 400 litres of liquor. On Sunday, the officials of Soro Excise department seized more than 400 litres of liquor being smuggled by three youths […]

Guwahati: At least ten people died and eight others were badly injured in a tragic road mishap at Demow in Upper Assam’s Sivasagar district on Monday morning, police said. The incident took place at Thaora Dol in Demow when two passenger vehicles travelling in opposite direction collided head on. Police said that while four people […]

Koraput: At the age of 17, she is the sole bread earner and caretaker of a family of five – not by choice but due to harsh circumstances. After losing her father in a road mishap five years back, Laxmi Nayak, a resident of Khudiguda village in Koraput district is the last ray of hope […]

Bolangir: In a tragic incident, a brother-sister duo was killed in a road accident at Mahipur Square under Tushura Police Limits of Bolangir district, today morning. The deceased have been identified as Mantu Benia and his sister Sanju of Phangania village under Muribahal block. Reportedly, Mantu was going to drop Sanju at her school after […]

Mayurbhanj: At least seven persons were injured after two escort vehicles accompanying Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal met with an accident near Purunapani in Udala during his visit to Mayurbhanj district on Friday. The Governor was on his way to Baripada from Udala when the mishap occurred. However, the mishap occurred when the Governor’s vehicle had […]

Ganjam/Dhenkanal: One person was killed while as many as 50 others were injured in two separate road mishaps in Odisha. In Gangpur Police limits of Ganjam district, one man was killed and over 15 were injured on Wednesday night after a mini-bus they were travelling in, overturned. As per reports, the mini-bus named ‘Darpa’ was […]

Tirupati: At least 12 people were killed when a container trailer-truck crushed an Omni van and two other vehicles after its brakes failed in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district on Friday, police said. The accident occurred near Mogili Ghat on Chittoor-Bengaluru highway at around 7 p.m. The container crushed an Omni van, an auto-rickshaw and a […]

Jajpur: Three motor-cycle borne persons were killed early on Tuesday when their two-wheeler collided head-on with a truck on National Highway-16 in Odisha’s Jajpur district, a police officer said. While one of them died on the spot, two others succumbed to their injuries in the district headquarters hospital, he said. According to Ajay Kumar Jena, […]

Balasore: At least nine persons of a family hailing from Gujarat sustained injuries after the van they were travelling in hit a truck near Talanagar under Soro Police limits on National Highway-16 in Balasore district Friday morning. All the injured have been identified as residents of Aravalli area in Gujarat. Three persons who received critical […]

Mayurbhanj/Balasore: At least two persons were killed while another sustained critical injuries after a truck in which they were travelling fell into a 50-feet deep gorge at Bangiriposi ghat in Mayurbhanj on National Highway-59 this morning. Reportedly, the iron-laden truck was enroute to Kolkata from Chandigarh when the mishap occurred. Soon after the incident, locals […]

Dhaka: At least ten people were killed when a microbus they were travelling in collided with a passenger bus near Dhaka on Friday afternoon, a senior police official said here. The accident happened in the Munshiganj district, around 27 km south of capital Dhaka, reported the Xinhua news agency.

Cuttack: At least 13 artistes of a Jatra (orchestra) troupe sustained injuries after the truck in which they were travelling overturned near Barabati pond on old Cuttack-Sambalpur road. According to reports, the truck skidded off the road when its driver was trying to evade a motorcyclist on the road. Odisha Fire Services Personnel and local […]

Nayagarh/Jharsuguda: At least one person was killed while nine others sustained injuries in two separate road mishaps in Jharsuguda and Nayagarh districts today. A speeding truck reportedly hit a car near Mahima Chhak under Belpahar Police limits in Jharsuguda district killing the owner of the car. Another person in the car, who sustained critical injuries […]

Kalahandi/Jajpur/Bhadrak: At least four persons were killed and three others sustained multiple injuries in separate road mishaps in different places in Odisha on Thursday. In the first mishap, a couple out for morning walk died after being run over by an unidentified vehicle at around 5 AM near Mahichala village chhak on NH-26 under Junagarh […]

Kendrapara: A Class II girl was killed and four others including three students and a teacher of Oupada Sishu Vidya Mandir sustained critical injuries after an auto-rickshaw carrying them overturned near Gara Chhak under Pattamundai block in Kendrapara district today. The deceased girl has been identified as Subhasmita Swain. All the injured have been rushed […]