This story is from October 6, 2020

Five killed in head-on car-bus crash in Alipurduar

Five killed in head-on car-bus crash in Alipurduar
Jalpaiguri: Four members of a family and the driver of the car they had hired were killed when the vehicle collided head-on with an NBSTC bus at Balasundar under Falakata police station of Alipurduar on Monday. A fifth member of the family is battling for life at a government hospital.
According to police, the deceased — identified as Abhijit Sarkar (35), his wife Beauty (24), his cousin Habul Sarkar, brother-in-law Basudeb Karmakar and driver Prasenjit Mohonto — were residents of Shanti Nagar in Alipurduar, as is injured Sonam Biswas.

The family was on its way to Siliguri for Abhijit’s liver ailment treatment when they met with the accident near Dudua river bridge between Falakata and Dhupguri around 7am. Sources said they had hired the car because they couldn’t get an ambulance.
Witnesses have told police that both vehicles were speeding and lost control while negotiating a sharp bend. The crash triggered a major traffic bottleneck on the state highway. It took police a few hours to ease the snarl while metal cutters were used to retrieve the bodies from the mangled remains of the car.
In a separate accident on Monday, an unidentified man was run over near Dhupguri bus stand. On Sunday evening, the labour welfare officer of Moraghat tea estate, Gopal Chandra Saha, was fatally injured when a speeding bike hit him on NH-31C. He died at Banerhat hospital.
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