Five die in separate accidents

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 19:06 [IST]

Agartala, Mar 03 (UNI) Five people died in separate road mishaps at different places of Tripura yesterday.

In the first incident, four persons were killed when a maruti car, in which they were travelling, collided with a bus at Chacrimile in Bishalgarh.While the driver of the car and another person died on the spot, two others succumbed to their injuries in hospital.

The bus was coming from Udaipur to Agartala while the car was coming from the opposite direction. Police seized both the vehicles but the bus driver is absconding.

In another road mishap, a 40-year old woman died on the spot when a jeep dashed her at Ram Thakur Para under Khowai police station, police sources said. Police seized the vehicle but the driver is abscondng.

UNI

Topics: ACCIDENT-TRIPURA

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