Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 11 2008:
AT LEAST one died and six passengers including two women injured when a Guwahati bound inter-state bus originating from Imphal met with an accident in Nagaland this evening at around 5.50 pm.
Official reports said that bus (MN-01-1365) which left Imphal this morning met with the accident at a spot near Chukudema police check post, Kudulong along the NH-39 at around 5.50 pm.
The bus felt down into a gorge on the roadside of the high, the report said.
An injured woman named Y Keinahanbi of Nganapithong died at around 9.20 pm at Zion Hospital while out of the six injured passengers, two have been evacuated at Dimapur Civil Hospital while four of them with less injury have been admitted at the Christian Medical Hospital, Dimapur, the report said adding that their conditions were out of danger.
Later, the ill-fated bus has also been dragged out from the gorge by a team of Dimapur police led by its OC along with the traffic police, the report added.