Two elephants fatally hit by bus

GUWAHATI, AUG.23. Two elephants were crushed to death by a speeding bus whose driver also died on the spot and several other passengers were injured in Assam's Kamrup district on Tuesday night, police said.

The bus, on its way to Barpeta from Dimapur, hit the two elephants which were crossing the Saraighat bridge near the Jalukbari-Amingaon crossing, about 20 km from here.

The elephants and the bus driver died on the spot while the other injured, several critically, have been admitted to the railway hospital and Guwahati medical college.

Traffic on the Saraighat road-rail bridge, which links the north- east with the rest of the country, was stopped and cranes were pressed into service to remove the carcasses from the accident site.

- PTI

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