{"id":281767,"date":"2026-04-26T01:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=281767"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:54:17","slug":"pwd-engineer-killed-3-injured-in-two-separate-incidents-of-trees-falling-on-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/pwd-engineer-killed-3-injured-in-two-separate-incidents-of-trees-falling-on-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"PWD engineer killed, 3 injured in two separate incidents of trees falling on vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 25 Apr:<\/strong> A 43-year-old PWD engineer was killed after an uprooted tree from a hilltop fell on his moving Toyota Fortuner car (AR01-T-7477) near Potin and Posa in Keyi Panyor district on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keyi Panyor Superintendent of Police Angad Mehta informed that the deceased has been identified as Deken Sorang, a junior engineer with the Public Works Department (PWD), who was posted in Pipsorang in Kra Daadi district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP informed that strong wind and heavy rainfall uprooted the tree, which fell on Sorang&#8217;s vehicle. The incident reportedly occurred at around 8 am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is learnt that Sorang and his driver Shan Rai (36), a resident of Dhemaji in Assam, were travelling when the tree directly hit Sorang&#8217;s side of the vehicle and crushed him, resulting in his immediate death. The driver escaped without major physical injuries but was left in a state of shock and is undergoing treatment at the community health centre (CHC) in Yazali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP added that, on being alerted, police personnel reached the spot, evacuated the occupants, and shifted them to the CHC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An inquest has been conducted, and further legal formalities are being carried out in coordination with the deceased&#8217;s family, he informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, the fallen tree was removed from the highway with the help of an earthmover, restoring traffic movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SP has advised commuters to avoid travelling during storms and exercise heightened caution, &#8220;especially in landslide- and tree-fall-prone areas&#8221; during the monsoon season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, three persons were injured &#8211; one of them critically &#8211; when a falling tree struck a vehicle amid high-velocity winds in Dibang Valley district on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured have been identified as Asiruddin Ali (35), Rajkumar (45), and Ashraf Ali (14).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ali, who sustained head injuries, was referred to a hospital in Dibrugarh, Assam, for advanced treatment after being treated at the district hospital in Anini.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other two individuals sustained minor injuries and are under treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation is being closely monitored by the District Disaster Management Authority, under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner Bekir Nyorak. (With DIPRO input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 25 Apr: A 43-year-old PWD engineer was killed after an uprooted tree from a hilltop fell on his moving Toyota Fortuner car (AR01-T-7477) near Potin and Posa in Keyi Panyor district on Saturday morning. Keyi Panyor Superintendent of Police Angad Mehta informed that the deceased has been identified as Deken Sorang, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281767","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=281767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281785,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281767\/revisions\/281785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}