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Three women, who were going to participate in the Rath Yatra in Puri, died in a road accident on Saturday. The accident occurred on a bridge near Pipili on the Bhubaneswar-Puri highway.
According to the police, the three women were traveling with a two-wheeler, when they were hit by a motorcycle from behind. They fell due to the collision and at the same time a government bus passed over him.
In the accident, two women died on the spot, while the third woman died while taking him to the hospital.
Pipili police station in -charge Soumendra S Tripathi said that the deceased have been identified as Rimjhimi Priyadarshini Sahu, Elina Das, and Kajal Das. Two of these women were residents of Kendrapara district, while a woman was a resident of Old Town area of Bhubaneswar. The bodies of the three have been sent for postmortem and the investigation of the case has been started.