Three of a family die, eight hurt in accident in Odisha

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Press Trust of India Bhawanipatna (Odisha)
Last Updated : Jan 03 2014 | 6:12 PM IST
Three members of a family were killed and eight others injured, when their jeep collided with a truck in Odisha's Kalahandi district today, police sources said.
The jeep driver tried to avoid a vehicle coming from the opposite direction and hit a bullock cart before colliding with the loaded truck from the rear, the sources said.
The seriously injured were admitted to the SCB Medical College Hospital at Cuttack and the driver at a hospital at Visakhapatnam in adjoining Andhra Pradesh, the sources said.
The family of ten from here were returning home after a pilgrimage to Shirdi in Maharastra.
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First Published: Jan 03 2014 | 6:12 PM IST

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