Tension mounted in the Rugudi police station area of Keonjhar district on Friday when a man and his daughter were killed in a fatal road accident.
The deceased were identified as Ramsingh Munda (30) and his daughter Turi Munda (5) of Lasarda village under the Bolani police station.
The mishap occurred on the National Highway 520 near Rugudi police station, when they were returning to their village from Rugudi by a motorbike. A trailer ran over them, resulting in their death on the spot.
Later, police rushed to the spot, seized both the vehicles and sent the dead bodies to a private hospital in Joda for postmortem.