The death toll from the Kaziranga road crash in Assam has risen to 26, while 14 injured people remain hospitalised at Jorhat Medical College and Hospital (JMCH), including four patients in critical condition, hospital authorities said on Sunday.
Two patients, Mokidul Hoque, 18, and Mustakin Hussian, 17, were discharged from JMCH after recovering from minor injuries. Both are residents of Samaguri in Nagaon district.
JMCH principal Saurabh Borkotoky said six of the 14 patients still under treatment were in the general ward and had improved significantly. The remaining eight were in the intensive care unit, including four in critical condition. “Treatment is being provided to all the patients,” Borkotoky said.
Twenty people were admitted to JMCH after the crash on November 13. Farhin Yasmin, 21, died of her injuries on the same day, while two more people died on Saturday, taking the total number of fatalities to 26.
The injured were initially taken to Kohora Model Hospital, located more than 2 km from the accident site, before being referred to JMCH. The sequence highlights the emergency-care chain following a serious highway collision: first response and stabilisation near the crash site, followed by transfer to a medical college hospital for continued treatment.
The collision took place on the two-lane NH-715 at Rangajan, near Hatikhuli Tea Estate in the Kohora range of Kaziranga. A minibus travelling from Golaghat to Nagaon collided head-on with a container truck travelling from Tezpur to Dibrugarh. More than half of the minibus was destroyed in the impact.
The latest hospital update provides the current status of the survivors being treated at JMCH, but the supplied report does not identify the cause of the collision or state whether any investigation has established responsibility. Four patients remain in critical condition, while six others in the general ward have shown significant improvement, according to the hospital principal.
