Bhadrak: One police personnel was killed and three others sustained critical injuries after a van they were travelling in collided head-on with a trailer truck on the Basudevpur-Dhamra Road in Bhadrak district late at night on Thursday.
The deceased and the injured are all personnel from Astaranga Police Station in Puri district. The accident took place near Biras Chhak.
According to reports, the Astaranga police team had come to the Naikanidihi police station area in Bhadrak for investigation in connection with a case. While they were returning towards Basudevpur, their vehicle collided head-on with a trailer coming from the opposite direction towards Dhamra. The collision was so intense that the police vehicle was completely mangled and the personnel were thrown onto the road.
Locals along with Basudevpur Fire Services and police rescued the injured and rushed them to Basudevpur Community Health Centre (CHC), where doctors declared one personnel dead. The three critically injured personnel were later shifted to Bhadrak District Headquarters Hospital and then to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Kataka for advanced treatment, stated Bhadrak Sadar SDPO.
