Tractor overturn kills student

A tractor overturned near Dhepaguda in Odisha’s Koraput district on Sunday night, killing a Class 10 student and critically injuring three other girls. (pragativadi.com) Pragativadi reported that five girls from Majhiguda village under Ramagiri panchayat in Baipariguda had gone for brick-loading work and were returning home when the vehicle overturned. The trolley crushed Anjali Badapadia, who died at the scene. (pragativadi.com) Anjali Badapadia was a student at Gopal High School and had recently appeared for her matriculation examination, the state’s Class 10 board test. Three injured girls were taken for treatment at hospitals in Jeypore and Baipariguda. (pragativadi.com) (bseodisha.nic.in) The report said one of the five girls was an adult and the other three were minors. Ramagiri police reached the site, seized the body, arranged a post-mortem, and handed the body to the family. (pragativadi.com) Baipariguda, also spelled Boipariguda on government records, is a block in Koraput district. Odisha government records list villages there under gram panchayats, including the local administrative structure cited in the accident report. (koraput.odisha.gov.in) (rdcsdbmp.nic.in) The case also points to how tractors are used beyond farm fields in rural areas, including hauling people and materials for daily-wage work such as brick loading. In this crash, the girls had travelled for that work before the return trip turned fatal. (pragativadi.com) Koraput has seen other recent overturn crashes involving utility vehicles carrying groups of passengers. On April 18, at least 33 people were injured, including 13 critically, after a pickup van overturned near Laxmipur-Bariput ghat in the district, according to Ommcom News. (ommcomnews.com) Police are still investigating what caused the tractor to overturn near Dhepaguda. For Anjali Badapadia’s family, the crash ended the school year after she had already sat for her matric exams. (pragativadi.com)