Former Sambalpur MP Amar Pradhan’s son Ankur along with two of his friends was killed in a road mishap near Telengapentha on the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar road in the wee hours of Saturday.
The two other deceased hailed from the Goplapur area in Cuttack district.
Ankur and his friends were on their way to Cuttack from Bhubaneswar in a Jaguar car when the vehicle met with an accident at around 3 am.
The speeding car lost control and fell into a roadside canal.
Getting information, police rushed to the spot and rescued the three youths trapped inside the car.
All the injured were immediately rushed to the SCB Medical College Hospital here, where doctors declared them brought dead.