{"id":231982,"date":"2024-01-04T00:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231982"},"modified":"2024-01-04T00:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:57:04","slug":"12-killed-in-bus-truck-collision-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/12-killed-in-bus-truck-collision-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"12 killed in bus-truck collision in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GOLAGHAT\/JORHAT (Assam), 3 Jan:<\/strong> At least 12 people, including three children, were killed and 38 others suffered injuries in a head-on collision between a coal-laden truck and a bus in Golaghat district of Assam on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident took place at Balijan near Dergaon on National Highway-715 when the bus with 49 people on board collided with the goods vehicle, Golaghat district commissioner P. Uday Praveen told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Out of the 12 people who died, six were women. All of them were from Basa Bharaluwa village,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A total of 31 people are undergoing treatment at Jorhat Medical College and Hospital (JMCH), while seven others with minor injuries have been admitted to Dergaon Community Health Centre,&#8221; Praveen said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the loss of lives in the accident, and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JMCH superintendent Dr. Purnima Barua told PTI that four persons, including two minors, are in critical condition at the Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to an official from the Dergaon police station, the accident took place around 4:30 am when the bus, which was on its way to Tilinga Mandir in Tinsukia district for a picnic, collided with the truck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The truck was coming from the direction of Jorhat and on the wrong side, as a portion of the four-lane highway was damaged. The bus was on the right track. There was fog and both the vehicles were speeding,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The stretch of the highway where the accident took place has been cleared for normal vehicular movement, an official added. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLAGHAT\/JORHAT (Assam), 3 Jan: At least 12 people, including three children, were killed and 38 others suffered injuries in a head-on collision between a coal-laden truck and a bus in Golaghat district of Assam on Wednesday, officials said. The accident took place at Balijan near Dergaon on National Highway-715 when the bus with 49 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}