Bhubaneswar, Mar 1 (PTI) Eleven people died in two separate road accidents in Odisha's Nuapada and Angul districts, police said on Tuesday.

Six members of a family were killed when their car skidded off the Bargarh-Nuapada Biju Expressway, rolled down a slope and hit a tree in Nuapada block, they said.

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A 12-year-old child was among the deceased, who died on the spot.

The group of people, from Chhattisgarh, were travelling to a wedding party, a police officer said.

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In Angul, five people died when the vehicle carrying them rammed into a truck near Kantiapasi on National Highway-149 on Monday night, police added.

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