{"id":4408,"date":"2026-11-14T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2026-11-14T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:03:53","slug":"truck-and-bus-collision-in-indias-assam-kills-at-least-23-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"Truck and bus collision in India&#8217;s Assam kills at least 23 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least 23 people were killed, and several others injured \u200bafter a container truck collided with \u200ca bus in India\u2019s northeastern state of Assam on Friday, police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The accident took place on \u200ba highway located near the UNESCO \u200bWorld Heritage site of Kaziranga National \u2060Park, which is famous for its one-horned \u200brhinoceroses<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 23 confirmed deaths, and seven \u200bpeople have been referred to the hospital,\u201d Swapnaneel Deka, superintendent of police of Golaghat district, under \u200bwhich Kaziranga falls, told Reuters. \u201cIt is \u200blikely the death toll will increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the bus \u200cwas \u2060travelling to a neighbouring district, with around 30 people on board. The driver of the truck was injured<\/p>\n<p>Assam Chief Minister \u200bHimanta Biswa Sarma \u200bsaid \u2060in a post on X that he was \u201cdeeply distressed by the \u200btragic accident\u201d and had sent \u200ba \u2060senior minister to the site to oversee relief arrangements<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur foremost priority now is to \u2060make \u200bsure the injured receive \u200bthe best possible medical care without delay,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 23 people were killed, and several others injured \u200bafter a container truck collided with \u200ca bus in India\u2019s northeastern state of Assam on Friday, police said. The accident took place on \u200ba highway located near the UNESCO \u200bWorld Heritage site of Kaziranga National \u2060Park, which is famous for its one-horned \u200brhinoceroses \u201cThere are 23 confirmed deaths, and seven \u200bpeople have been referred to the hospital,\u201d Swapnaneel Deka, superintendent of police of Golaghat district, under \u200bwhich Kaziranga falls, told Reuters. \u201cIt is \u200blikely the death toll will increase.\u201d He&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}