Koraput, June 22: At least nine persons, including five women, were today killed and seven others injured when a jeep collided with a loaded truck in Orissa”s Koraput district. The mishap occurred near Doliamba, about 30 km from here, when the jeep was on its way from Renga to Semiliguda, the police said.
While seven people died on the spot, two others died of their injuries at a hospital here, they said. The injured were undergoing treatment at the district headquarters hospital here.
The condition of some of the injured was stated to be critical, the police said.
—–PTI