Digapahandi: The lifeless body of an elderly woman was recovered from a passenger bus travelling from Digapahandi to Berhampur Friday.
The deceased was identified as Lalita Panigrahi, 78, a resident of Ananta Nagar near Sheragada block office.
Panigrahi was travelling to Berhampur for a medical check-up. Eyewitnesses said the elderly woman arrived at Digapahandi’s old bus stand via a minibus from Sheragada.
She then boarded a passenger bus heading to Berhampur from Gadasamantarapur village in Digapahandi block. The bus was crowded. Some passengers offered her a seat after noticing she was unwell. However, she collapsed on the seat before the bus departed.
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Passengers immediately contacted the emergency services and an ambulance arrived promptly. Medical staff took her to the Digapahandi Community Health Centre (CHC), where the doctors pronounced her brought dead.
PNN