{"id":248646,"date":"2024-09-15T02:09:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=248646"},"modified":"2024-09-15T02:09:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T20:39:33","slug":"man-killed-grandchild-injured-as-train-hits-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/man-killed-grandchild-injured-as-train-hits-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed, grandchild injured as train hits car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 14 Sep:<\/strong> A 52-year-old man was killed and his grandchild injured after their car was hit by a train while crossing the tracks in Lower Siang district, an official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accident occurred at Pale, near Dimow, at around 3:50 pm on Friday, GRP Assistant Sb-Inspector Ganesh Hazarika told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased has been identified as Rigo Riba, a Sub-Inspector of the Indian Reserve Battalion. He was travelling with his seven-year-old grandchild from Pasighat in East Siang district, where he was posted, to his native village when the accident happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their car was hit by the Murkongselek-Tezpur special train. The train, which was on the way to Dekargaon in Assam&#8217;s Tezpur, dragged<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">the car for at least 1 km, Hazarika said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impact of the accident was such that Riba died on the spot, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minor was taken to Dibrugarh in Assam for further treatment, he added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 14 Sep: A 52-year-old man was killed and his grandchild injured after their car was hit by a train while crossing the tracks in Lower Siang district, an official said on Saturday. The accident occurred at Pale, near Dimow, at around 3:50 pm on Friday, GRP Assistant Sb-Inspector Ganesh Hazarika told PTI. The deceased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248646","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=248646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}