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Meghalaya bus crash kills 31
Wednesday August 08, 2012 06:37:52 PM,
IANS
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Shillong: Thirty-one
people were killed and 27 injured when a bus proceeding from Assam
to Tripura rolled down a hill in Meghalaya early Wednesday, police
said.
Two women were among those killed when the bus rolled down a 100
metre deep gorge in Tongseng, East Jaintia Hills district police
chief M.K. Dkhar told IANS.
Tongseng is about 150 km east of Shillong, the capital of
Meghalaya. The privately-owned night bus was on its way from
Guwahati in Assam to Tripura capital Agartala.
Of the injured, Dkhar said seven were rushed to Silchar Medical
College in southern Assam and the rest in nearby hospitals in the
district.
"The rescue operations are over and investigation has begun to
ascertain the cause of the accident," the officer said.
A Tripura official told IANS in Agartala that 27 people died on
the spot.
The driver of the bus, who also died, lost control of the bus when
he was taking a turn in the terrain cramped Assam-Agartala
highway.
Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey told IANS that a state
government team had left for the site.
He said the place where the disaster site was "extremely accident
prone". "Every year a number of accidents have occurred in the
area. killing many people."
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