Bhubaneswar: Twenty-five tourists from West Bengal sustained varying degrees of injuries when the bus they were travelling by overturned near Mahakudi village under Brahmanigaon police limits in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Wednesday morning.
According to reports, the tourists had come to visit Daringbadi in the district and were heading towards Gajapati when the accident occurred. As the bust was close to Mahakudi village, the driver lost control of the wheels at a turning point on the road. Consequently, the bus overturned injuring 25 passengers.
The accident victims were rushed to Brahmanigaon Community Health Center (CHC) and later, two of them were shifted to the MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur as their condition deteriorated.