• At least 23 people killed in the Golaghat collision.
• Passenger vehicle carrying over 35 people, including school students.
• Accident occurred on NH-715 near Kaziranga National Park.
• Critically injured passengers shifted to hospitals in Bokakhat and Jorhat.

GG News Bureau
Golaghat, 13th Nov: At least 23 people were killed and several others critically injured in an Assam road accident on Friday afternoon after a passenger vehicle carrying more than 35 people, including school students, collided head-on with a goods trailer in Golaghat district.

The accident occurred around 2:30 pm on National Highway 715 at Rangajan in the Kohora range near Kaziranga National Park. The passenger Traveller was travelling from Bokakhat towards Nagaon with students from Kaziranga High School when it crashed into an oncoming container truck.

Golaghat Senior Superintendent of Police Swapaneel Deka confirmed that at least 23 deaths had been recorded. He warned that the toll could rise as rescue teams continued operations at the accident site.

Local residents, police personnel and district administration officials rushed to the spot to assist with rescue and relief efforts. The injured were initially taken to Kohora Model Hospital, while those in critical condition were referred to Bokakhat Civil Hospital and Jorhat Medical College and Hospital.

Preliminary police assessments suggest that overspeeding along the restricted Kaziranga stretch may have caused the vehicle’s driver to lose control. The circumstances leading to the collision remain under investigation.