Silchar: Ten people, consisting of three men, five women, and two children, killed in place when the automatic rickshaw where they traveled colliding with a truck at the Saruchalita Tea Park Baithakhal area in NH-8 in Karimanjitas in the south of Assam on Thursday morning .
Jakir Hussain truck driver (40), a tripura resident and who escaped from the place immediately after the accident, was then arrested from heard in Bazaricherra in the district.
The victims, between eight and 25 years are all residents of Longai Tea Estate in this district, and returned after attending the Puja Chhath celebration at Ichabeel locality in the Patharkandi block.
A senior police officer in Karimganj said the car when returning from Ichabeel had a head-on collision at 7:30 a.m.
with a cement-loaded truck, which was bound to Tripura, in Saruchalita.
All nine passengers died in place, while the driver of the car, which was injured critically, rushed to Karimganj’s civil hospital, but immediately gave up on his injury.
Automatically was very destroyed because of the impact of the accident, the official added.
After the accident, the locals began protesting and blocking the national highway, which connected Assam with Tripura.
Officers were responsible for the Patharkandi police station and Bazaricherra Samarjit Basumatary and Monuranjan Sinha each rushed to place, following the bodies sent to Karimanjitas civil hospital for autopsy.
Police Supervisors (Karimanj) Padmanabh recently and other senior police and administrative officials also reached the place and spoke to the protesters.
Officials convinced them to provide adequate compensation to family members who died, after which the road blockade was withdrawn around 10 in the morning.
The bodies were sent to their homes on Thursday night after the autopsy, said an official.
In a tweet, Minister of Himanta’s minister could Sarma reveal condolences for the deceased.
Governor Assam Jagdish Mukhi lamented the loss of life after the accident.
Assam: 10 on the way back from Chhath Puja die in automatic truck collisions; 1 owned
