Bhubaneswar, May 9 -- At least one person was killed and several others injured in a series of road accidents reported from different parts of Odisha over the past 24 hours, raising fresh concerns over road safety across the state.
In the most serious incident, one person died and 15 others were injured, including two critically, after a private passenger bus carrying around 30 passengers collided head-on with a truck near a roadside dhaba under Kodala police station in Ganjam district on Saturday morning.
Police said the deceased was the truck driver, who became trapped inside the mangled vehicle after the collision. Fire services personnel, police, and local residents carried out a rescue operation by cutting through portions of the dam...