Bhubaneswar: Eleven people died in two separate road accidents in Odisha’s Nuapada and Angul districts, police said Tuesday.
Six members of a family were killed when their car skidded off the Bargarh-Nuapada Biju Expressway, rolled down a slope and hit a tree in Nuapada block, they said.
A 12-year-old child was among the deceased, who died on the spot.
The group of people, from Chhattisgarh, were travelling to a wedding party, a police officer said.
In Angul, five people died when the vehicle carrying them rammed into a truck near Kantiapasi on National Highway-149 on Monday night, police added.
PTI