GOALPARA, Feb 4 - Six persons were killed and 30 others injured when a speeding bus in which they were travelling overturned after hitting an electrical pole and fell into a roadside ditch at Kothakuthi under Dhupdhara Police station today around 7.30 in the morning.
According to the locals the ill-fated night service bus was carrying around 45 passengers and was travelling at high speed from Dhubri towards Guwahati. According to reliable sources five died on spot while another, a lady succumbed to her injuries at the Dhupdhara PHC.
Police and army personnel who were travelling in a vehicle at that time and aided by locals started rescuing the injured from the site of the accident. All the seriously injured passengers have been shifted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital. The rest were admitted in the Bikali Model Hospital at Dhupdhara for further treatment.
The passengers who lost their lives in the accident were Montu Sheikh,Abida Khatun, Handan Saha, Gokul Roy, Abul Hussein Mia, Hafizuddin Sheikh.