At least 12 people, including three children and five women, were killed when the bus they were travelling in collided head-on with a coal-laden truck at Balijan near Dergaon in eastern Assam’s Golaghat district on Wednesday, January 3.
Among the dead were the drivers of the bus and the truck.
The accident happened on a diverted stretch of National Highway 37 at about 5 a.m. The spot is about 280 km east of Guwahati.
