Kaziranga – November 14, 2026: A pall of profound grief descended across Assam after a catastrophic pre-dawn collision between a passenger night bus and a heavy commercial freight truck on National Highway 37 near the Kaziranga perimeter resulted in the tragic loss of 25 lives and left over twenty commuters severely injured.
According to district police and disaster response teams who rushed to the accident zone, the collision occurred during dense early-morning fog conditions along an undivided highway bend. The sheer force of the impact crushed the frontal halves of both vehicles, trapping passengers inside the mangled wreckage. Local villagers joined emergency services to extract survivors using heavy hydraulic cutting equipment.
Injured passengers were evacuated in a continuous fleet of ambulances to sub-divisional hospitals in Bokakhat and the Jorhat Medical College Hospital, where specialized surgical trauma teams were mobilized. Senior administration officials confirmed that critical patients have been placed under intensive monitoring with free emergency medical aid provided by the state government.
Expressing deep sorrow over the loss of lives, state and union authorities announced ex-gratia relief for the families of the deceased and instituted an immediate high-level magisterial investigation to ascertain vehicle speeds, driver fatigue, and mechanical compliance.
Published by True Roots Media