Bhubaneswar: One person was killed and five others injured in a series of collisions involving three buses and a motorcycle near the Banpur overbridge on National Highway-16 in Khordha district on Saturday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Shubham Jyoti Prahraj, a resident of Nimikheta village under Balugaon police limits. He was riding pillion on a motorcycle when the mishap occurred.
According to reports, a bus traveling from Semiliguda to Bhubaneswar came to a sudden halt to avoid hitting cattle lying on the road. A motorcycle following the bus rammed into it and was subsequently rear-ended by another bus. A third bus, reportedly en route from Visakhapatnam to Kolkata, collided into the second bus from behind.
Shubham died on the spot due to the impact, while the motorcyc