Bhubaneswar: In the wake of road accident at Kalinga ghat where six tourists from West Bengal were killed and several injured, the West Bengal Government will send a team of high-level officials to Odisha to coordinate the rescue operation.
The four-member team comprising Dushyant Nariyala, Principal Secretary, DM & CD Department; Debasis Baidya, WBCS (Exe.) PD, DRDC, Howrah; Subrata Bhowmick, WBPS, Dy. SP, D&T and Laxmi Kanta De, SDDMO, Uluberia will visit the accident site.
The team is expected to reach Bhubaneswar this evening.
At least six tourists from West Bengal were killed and more than 40 injured when the bus, in which they were travelling, met with an accident on Kalinga ghat last night.
The bus was heading towards Visakhapatnam after the tourists from Udaynarayanpur area in Howrah district of West Bengal visited Daringbadi in Kandhamal district. Over 70 persons were onboard in the bus.
The bus driver claimed that the mishap occurred late on Tuesday night due to brake failure, as per reports.