By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK/KENDRAPARA: As many as 3 passengers, mostly from Chandabali in Bhadrak and Rajkanika areas, were killed while as many as 30 passengers badly injured after Passenger Bus ‘Manorama’ coming from Nandagohira in Chandabali to Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, collided with Truck on Cuttack-Chandabali State Highway at Katarpada Chhaka near Nischintkoili on Tuesday morning.
Sources said, Due to dense fog, the driver of the bus could not notice the truck on the road and crashed the vehicle into it. As a result, three persons were killed and over 30 persons were seriously injured.
The injured persons have been admitted to the Nischintakoili Community Health Center for treatment. Some of them have been referred to Cuttack
More than 40 passengers were on the bus. Among them 30 minor injured passengers were rescued and shifted to hospital by Fire Service vehicle and ambulance. Four persons(Bus and truck drivers with two passengers) were trapped. FS personnel rescued the four trapped persons using hydraulic cutting gears and shifted to hospital by ambulance.
