Balasore: A woman and her six-year-old son died when a heavy iron bar fell on them while travelling on the rear-end of a truck from Chandikhole to Balasore in Odisha, police said Friday.
A police official said the truck was carrying bundles of heavy iron bars, and seven members of a family were travelling in the vehicle, hunched in between spaces among the bunches.
When a driver suddenly applied the brakes to the vehicle, an iron bar slipped off a bunch and fell on the mother-son duo, killing them, the official said, adding that another woman, belonging to the same family, was injured in the incident.
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The deceased have been identified as Sambari Soren (25) and her son Saurabh Soren, residents of Shyamsundarpur village in Balasore.
Police said the accident took place at about 6 am when the family was returning from Paradip. They took a lift in the truck loaded with iron plates from Chandikhol in Jajpur district.
PTI