Bhubaneswar: As many as five persons were critically injured as an auto-rickshaw, in which they were travelling, overturned at Charampa Canal Square on the National Highway-16 in Bhadrak district early this morning.

According to information, the three-wheeler carrying passengers were on way to Bhadrak when the driver lost control over it. The passengers were rescued by local people. All the injured are now undergoing treatment at the district headquarters hospital (DHH), Bhadrak.

On being informed by locals, police have reached the spot and started investigation.