{"id":8035,"date":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/c93f9fe8e12e2d0bb4381f0e49c2040e"},"modified":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"32-killed-in-assam-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/1999\/11\/29\/32-killed-in-assam-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"32 killed in Assam accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Guwahati, May 31 (IANS): At least 32 people were killed in Assam when a bus plunged into a gorge and petrol tanker turned turtle and exploded, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight people were killed and 10 had a miraculous escape when a bus, carrying a marriage party &#8212; the bridegroom, his family and friends, plunged into a gorge after hitting a wooden bridge around 11 p.m. Monday near Charabari village in Kamrup district, about 30 km from Assam`s main city of Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p>The dead included the groom, his father, and other friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was on its way from Guwahati to the bride`s house at Tihu in Nalbari district.<\/p>\n<p>`The marriage rituals at the bride`s home in Tihu were to take place early Tuesday and the bus was on its way with the groom when the accident took place,` police official A. Das said.<\/p>\n<p>`Initially, it was believed there were 43 people on board, but now after verification from the groom`s family it was found there were 38 people in the bus. Rescue workers and locals fished out 28 bodies, while 10 survived and are now in hospital,` Assam`s Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said after visiting the accident site.<\/p>\n<p>According to witnesses, the driver failed to notice the wooden bridge without any railings or signposts and then straightway plunged into a deep gorge, about 40 feet from the road.<\/p>\n<p>The Assam government has ordered an enquiry into the accident.<\/p>\n<p>`We have already ordered an enquiry to find out as to why the wooden bridge had no railings or signposts alerting drivers about the bad condition of the bridge,` Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said.<\/p>\n<p>`Immediate steps are being taken to make a concrete bridge, besides statewide alert sounded to look for such vulnerable bridges that need urgent repair or attention,` he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gogoi also announced Rs.100,000 for the next of kin of each of those killed and Rs.50,000 each to the six injured.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents, however, alleged that district civil and police authorities failed to react urgently following the accident.<\/p>\n<p>`The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was informed around 11 p.m. and they arrived at the accident site only around 7 a.m. Tuesday saying they don`t have night vision equipment and hence they came in the morning,` local community leader Bhabesh Bora told IANS.<\/p>\n<p>`It is a shame the NDRF and other civil and police officials failed to react to such disasters.`<\/p>\n<p>In the other incident late Monday, four people were burnt to death and 12 critically injured when a petrol-tanker turned turtle and exploded on a highway near Bokakhat in eastern Assam, about 250 km from Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p>`After the tanker skidded off the road, there was a massive fire with several houses along the highway set ablaze with sleeping villagers charred,` police official B. Bora said.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were charred beyond recognition, while 12 people were admitted to hospital with third degree burn injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The fire raged for more than 10 hours and was brought under control around 10 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/Cg7B-VkysSk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/Cg7B-VkysSk\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/Cg7B-VkysSk\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, May 31 (IANS): At least 32 people were killed in Assam when a bus plunged into a gorge and petrol tanker turned turtle and exploded, officials said Tuesday. 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