Guwahati: In a tragic road accident at least 30 people are feared dead after a passenger bus fell into a deep gorge in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya on Tuesday night.
The additional superintendent of police Lethindra Sangma, who was rushed to supervise the rescue operation said that a rescue team evacuated five people from the gorge on Wednesday morning but most of them were in critical condition.
He feared that gorge is so deep that the chances of survival of any more passengers were slim. There were 35 occupants in the bus when accident took place.
Informing that the accident took place at about 9.45 pm near Sonapur Mandir, he said that the accident site was about 60 km from Khliehriat the district headquarters where the bus had rolled down into the gorge.
Moreover, the place of occurrence had very poor network facilities so rescue team was finding it difficult to establish connection with the district headquarters for additional reinforcement to intensify the rescue operations, sources said.
