Two road accidents in Assam on Thursday left a college student dead and four people injured, three critically. An angry crowd torched a vehicle after it hit pedestrians in Tinsukia.
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Assam: Two separate road accidents in Assam on Thursday left a college student dead and at least four people injured, three of them critically. A speeding passenger vehicle ploughed into pedestrians near Saikhowa Bokapathar in the Tinsukia district, while a motorcycle crashed into a lamp post at Batachara under Barama police station limits in the Baksa district.
The Saikhowa incident took place in the evening on a stretch of the National Highway 115 in front of Khem Dhaba in the Bokapathar village in the Sadiya subdivision of the Tinsukia district. According to eyewitnesses, the passenger vehicle lost control and slammed with great force into three men walking along the roadside. The impact threw all three onto the road, leaving them gravely hurt.
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Local residents rushed the victims to hospital. They have been identified as Suresh Tanti (56), Suraj Tanti (26) and Raju Tamang (45), and their condition is said to be critical. Tension gripped the area after the crash, and an angry crowd set the offending vehicle on fire. Police reached the spot and worked to bring the situation under control.
Residents said that fast-moving vehicles have made the stretch accident-prone, with such crashes occurring often, and they urged the administration to put speed-control measures in place.
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Barama Accident
The second accident claimed the life of Hiramoni Rabha, a resident of Charanpara, at Batachara in Barama in the Baksa district. She was returning home on a motorcycle, registration AS 01 GS 2282, from a Bathou puja at Barbari when the rider lost control and hit a lamp post. Hiramoni and Jintu Das were flung off the bike, and she died on the spot.
Hiramoni was a first-semester undergraduate student at Nirmal Haloi College in Patacharkuchi.
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