By IANS
Guwahati : At least 21 people were killed and 42 injured, 21 of them seriously, in two separate road accidents Wednesday in the northeastern states of Assam and Meghalaya, officials said.
A police spokesman said a bus carrying 40 people fell into a gorge near village Mawryngkneng in Meghalaya, about 60 km from state capital Shillong.
“We have recovered 11 bodies and managed to rescue 29 injured passengers from an 80-feet gorge,” police official F.I. Kharsandi told IANS by telephone. “Of the injured, 18 are in critical condition.”
The bus was going from Assam’s main city of Guwahati to the state’s southern city of Silchar via Meghalaya.
“The injured were shifted to a local hospital in Shillong,” the official said.
In another incident, 10 people were killed when a jeep carrying a wedding party collided head on with a truck at village Dhekiajuli in Assam’s Darrang district, about 130 km north of Guwahati.
“Ten people were killed on the spot and 13 injured, three of them critically, in the accident,” a police official said.
The injured, many with multiple injuries, were taken to local hospitals.