Close shave for passengers as bus rams into roadside shop in Balangir

Balangir: It was a close shave for passengers after a bus rammed into a roadside shop near Kandhabahal village under Kantabanji police limits here in the morning.

According to reports, the speeding private bus en route to Khariar from Bhubaneswar rammed into the shop after it lost control.

Fortunately, nobody was inside the shop during the incident and the passengers were unhurt.

Expressing outrage over the incident, the locals staged road blockade for some hours demanding speed breaker on the main road. They alleged that such incident is taking place repeatedly as there is no speed breaker on the road.

The Kantabanji police reached the spot and convinced the agitators following which the road blockade was cleared.