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2 killed, 24 injured in a bus-truck collision in Nadia
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LOCALCORRESPONDENT on 24 April, 2008 02:08:00
 
Krishnanagar: Two people killed and 24 others injured after a Siliguri bound bus
running at a high speed lost control and collided with a heavy truck coming from
the opposite direction in Nadia district.
Sources said that last night around 9 pm a bus, titled 'Discovery', running at
a very high speed from Bogula collided with a lorry coming from the opposite
direction before hitting a roadside tree at Jugpur-Laxmipara village on NH-34,
about 20 kilometers away from the town. The driver and a support staff of the
vehicle died on the spot.
Before the Nakashipara police reached the spot the victims were rescued by some
locals. The injured passengers mostly include residents of Siliguri and
Coochbehar. The passengers were rushed to Bethuadahari hospital and according to
primary reports the condition of two children are stated to be critical and they
were transferred to Shaktinagar district hospital in Krishnanagar.
Nakashipara police officer-in-charge Pintu Saha said that the number of
casualties may increase, as conditions of some passengers are very critical.
It must be recalled that last year External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee
was seriously injured after a lorry hit his car in this area while he was
returning from his constituency Berhampur.