Bhubaneswar, Feb. 9 -- A fatal road mishap near Budhikhamari Square on the national highway (NH-18) passing through Baripada town left two critically injured after a car rammed into a scooter and plunged nearly 20feet below the bridge in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district.

According to sources, the car was travelling from Baripada towards Balasore on Monday when it hit the scooter carrying a man and his six-year-old daughter. The impact of the collision was so massive that it threw both the scooter rider and the child off the vehicle, causing them to fall beneath the bridge. Moments later, driver of the car also lost control of the vehicle, and it crashed down from the bridge.

Local residents rushed to the spot and carried out a rescue operat...