Kendrapada: Couple killed in road accident

Kendrapada: A couple was killed in a road accident on

Thursday afternoon

at Tentuli Chhack on Paradip-Cuttack state highway under Naugaon police station of

Jagatsinghpur district

when a motor-bike skidded and overturned after the rider lost control.


The couple was riding pillion. While Ganesh Das (57) of Deriki village died on the spot, his wife Lata Das (55) succumbed to her injuries on her way to SCB medical college and hospital in

Cuttack

.

Bapi Rout (28), son-in-law of the deceased couple, who was riding the bike sustained serious injuries. All the three persons were going to Jagatsinghpur. tnn

on the bike. The police have seized the bodies and sent them for autopsy in a local government hospital," said P Kar, IIC of Nuagaon police station.