Keonjhar: In a highly tragic incident, as many as three students of a coaching centre, including two girls, died of snakebite at Nischintapur village under Baria police limits in Odisha's Keonjhar district, last night.

According to reports, the reptile bit four students of the residential coaching centre when they were sleeping.

As the matter came to fore, all of them were rushed to the Keonjhar District Headquarters Hospital, where three of the students were declared dead.

On the other hand, the survivor was shifted the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack for better treatment.

A pall of gloom descended on the locality after the untimely death of the students.