Bhubaneswar, Jan. 26 -- The state government has ordered a probe into a mishap in which a school student was killed and 20 others were injured in Banki area of Odisha's Cuttack district today morning.

School and Mass Education (S&ME) Department Commissioner-cum-Secretary Shalini Pandit has directed Cuttack Collector Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde to probe the incident.

Pandit also directed the district administration to place the headmaster of the high school under suspension.

A Class-X boy was killed and 20 others were injured after a van carrying students of Malaviharpur High School to a Republic Day parade venue overturned in Banki area in the morning.

The injured students were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. Some of them wer...