Bhubaneswar, Nov. 13 -- At least 16 passengers were injured, with nine of them critical, after a passenger bus rammed into a truck from behind near the Badachana overbridge in Odisha's Jajpur district this morning. Two critically injured passengers were shifted to Cuttack for better medical treatment.

The accident occurred between 5 am and 6 am today when the bus, carrying around 55 passengers from Medinipur in West Bengal to Puri, hit the truck parked on the roadside of the overbridge.

According to the report, the truck had suffered a tyre puncture and was parked on the roadside of the bridge. The bus driver is suspected to have dozed off at the wheel, possibly causing him to lose control of the vehicle and ram into the stationary truc...