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Nuapada, Feb 1: Three persons died Sunday, when a passenger train rammed into their vehicle at an unmanned level crossing at Kalyanpur about seven km from the district headquarters of Nuapada.
The road mishap victims were identified as Bhupatlal Sahu (63) of Gotama village, Ramkhilaban Agharia (55) of Chanabeda and engineer Satish Sahu (30) of Raipur.
Government railway police (GRP) accompanied by local police rushed to the spot and sent the bodies for post-mortem. The mishap triggered wide-spread tension in the area as agitated people demanding construction of a level-crossing detained the train for two hours and staged a demonstration on the track.
Normalcy was restored after railway officials intervened and the train left for its destination at about 12.30pm.
The mishap occurred when the victims were on their way to Gotama in a Maruti car from Chanabeda. They were crossing the level-crossing when the speeding train rammed their vehicle and dragged it to half a kilometre before their death.
The Bhawanipatna-Raipur bound passenger train hit the vehicle between Gotama and Kalyanpur sections, killing three of them on the spot, additional SP MK Patel said.
The impact of collision was so severe that the car was split into two pieces. While a portion of the car fell on the ground on one side of the rail track, another portion of it lay on the track in which the bodies of the three passengers were found.
