Dimapur-bound Winger coming from Imphal meet accident near Chumukedima
Source: NEPS *
Kohima, November 23 2014:
Dimapur-bound Winger passenger vehicle coming from Imphal bearing Registration No MN-01X-3107 met accident near Chumukedima Check Post on National Highway 29 at about 8:30 PM tonight.
According to eye-witnesses, the accident occurred when an overloaded Truck carrying eggs coming from Dimapur side fell over the Winger passenger vehicle badly smashing it.
However, details of other passengers could not be ascertained as when people who came across the accident vehicle first might have retrieved them from the mangled vehicle and rushed them to nearby hospitals in Dimapur while leaving the trapped driver inside the Winger vehicle.
Sources further disclosed that the driver and the handyman of the Truck were found absconding.
Meanwhile, Assam Rifles personnel from the nearby post rushed to the accident site on receipt of the information and finally could retrieve the driver with serious injuries after about 30 minutes from the mangled vehicle.
Another eyewitness informed that a mother and her daughter of the ill-fated Winger vehicle received serious injuries.
Identities of the driver and the other passengers and numbers of passengers are yet to be ascertained till the filing of this report.
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