At least 23 people were killed, and several others were left critically injured on Friday afternoon after a passenger vehicle carrying over 35 people, including school students, collided head-on with a goods trailer in Assam’s Golaghat district.
According to police officials, the tragic mishap occurred at around 2:30 pm along National Highway 715 at Rangajan in the Kohora range near Kaziranga National Park. The passenger Traveller, which was en route from Bokakhat toward Nagaon and carrying students from Kaziranga High School, slammed directly into the oncoming container truck.
Golaghat Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Swapaneel Deka confirmed that at least 23 fatalities have been recorded so far, warning that the death toll could rise as rescue teams extract victims from the mangled wreckage.
Following the collision, residents, police personnel, and district administration officials rushed to the site to launch urgent relief operations. The injured passengers were initially transported to the nearby Kohora Model Hospital, while those in critical condition were referred to Bokakhat Civil Hospital and Jorhat Medical College and Hospital for advanced care.
Preliminary police assessments indicate that overspeeding along the restricted Kaziranga stretch may have caused the driver to lose control.