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Police said two of them died on the spot while the other three succumbed to injuries in Puri district headquarters hospital. "We came to know that the nine persons had come to Puri Swargadwar to cremate an elderly woman of their village. BHUBANESWAR: Five persons died and four others were critical following a head-on collision between an auto-rickshaw and a truck on Jagannath Sadak in Puri district in Odisha in the early hours of Monday. A villager, who was returning on the route in bike, saw the incident and informed the police. The deceased and the injured were travelling in the auto-rickshaw after attending a funeral ceremony in Puri.Police said the travellers of auto-rickshaw belonged to Kanas area in the district..