PTI
GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 26
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]T least nine persons were killed – five of them women – and 26 others injured when a night bus run by the Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) went off the highway and fell into a small river in Nagaon district in central Assam late last night.
Nagaon district SP Arabinda Kalita said the ill-fated bus was on its way from North Lakhimpur in eastern Assam to Guwahati when the accident occurred. Majority of the passengers were on their way to catch a train in Guwahati today morning en route to Lucknow and other places for visiting some places of pilgrimage. “The bus which had also picked up some other passengers on the way must have lost control following which it hit the railings of a bridge and fell into a small river. While eight persons had died on the spot, one person died on being shifted to a hospital,” SP Kalita said. The accident occurred at village Uluwoni under Kaliabor police station at around 1:30 AM, after having traveled about two kilometers after crossing the Kaliabhomora bridge on the Brahmaputra.
