Overview
- A truck collided head-on with a passenger Traveller vehicle near Rongajan in the Kaziranga area, leaving 23 people dead and several others injured.
- Residents and police reached the scene to free passengers who were trapped inside the damaged vehicle and take the wounded to Kohora Model Hospital.
- Authorities established a green corridor to speed transfer of critically injured patients to Jorhat Medical College and Hospital for higher-level care.
- Bokakhat MLA and Assam minister Atul Bora confirmed the death toll and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said state teams are overseeing relief and medical arrangements.
- Key details such as the cause of the crash, the condition or status of the truck driver, and victims' identities have not been released and investigations are expected to follow.