4 die as car hits oil tanker head on

At least four persons were killed when car hit an oil tanker head on near Sandhapur on the Cuttack-Paradip road today, the police said.

All four persons including one woman and a girl child died on the spot in the collision between the car and the oil tanker, the police said adding, while the car was travelling towards Bhubaneswar from Paradip, the oil tanker came from the opposite direction.

The accident led to a traffic snarl on the busy Paradip-Cuttack road.