Class VI student dies after jumping off moving jeep

Gajapati: A Class VI student died after he jumped out of a moving jeep at Mohana under Adaba police limits in Gajapati district on Tuesday.

The incident took place when the boy, a student of a Model School in Gundima village, was travelling to school in a passenger jeep. He asked the driver to stop the vehicle near his school. But the driver couldn’t hear him and drove on, following which the boy jumped off the vehicle. He died on the spot, reports said.