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- Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi ordered coordination with Madhya Pradesh to return eight bodies.
- A car carrying seven Odisha family members and a driver fell into a rain-filled drain near Baglamukhi Temple.
- Police recovered the bodies around 9:30 a.m. and performed post-mortems.
- The victims were identified as seven named members of the Behera family.
- Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and patriarch Banamali Behera publicly mourned the loss.