Wife of former chief minister hurt in the road mishap

ANGUL: In a road mishap that occurred at Handapa bazar under Handapa police station this afternoon,the families of former chief minister of Odisha hemananda Biswal were hurt.The wife of Biswal Urmila Biswal,78 and her daughter Amita Biswal,38 were seriously hurt while the grand daughter of Urmila A B Dame,11 and driver Sanjay Behera sustained minor injuries.All these four injured have been rushed to Angul district hospital for treatment.

On the otherhand,two former MLAs Prabhat Tripathy and Amar Satpathy sustained very minor injuries in the incident.

The IIC of Handapa police station namita Nayak said while it was heavily raining at about 5pm,the car in which urmila was travelling from Sambalpur to Bhubaneswar rammed another car belonging to two former MLAs at Handapa bazar.As a result Urmila's car was damaged injuring Urmila on his head.

Police immediately reached the spot on being informed and shifted the injured to Angul district hospital.The IIC said that two cars have been seized and a case on accident has been registered in the police station.The two former MLAs were slightly hurt in the mishap.

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