Guwahati, Feb. 17: A mob set fire to a car after it knocked down and killed two persons on AT Road in the Bhootnath area today.
Police said the speeding Santro ( AS-01 Q/5889), travelling from Maligaon, lost control in front of the army camp at Bhootnath and hit a handcart-puller and two others around 9.30am. The owner of the car, M.C. Bhuyan, a retired registrar of Gauhati University, escaped unhurt, the police said.
Arvind Sahu, 40, the handcart-puller who is a resident of Bhootnath, and an unidentified person appearing to be in his mid-forties, died on the spot. Kishore Kumar Yadav, 36, a resident of Railway Gate 6, was admitted to the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital in a critical condition.
Sahu’s handcart came under the wheels and was dragged some distance before the vehicle came to a halt. The impact of the collision was so powerful that the unidentified person was flung to a distance of 30 feet and fell into a roadside drain.
As the crowd swelled, a mob overturned the vehicle before setting it ablaze. The driver of the car, Ratul Das, was beaten up.
Two tenders had to struggle for almost half-an-hour to douse the flames.
A large police force rushed to the spot to control the mob and rescue Das. A posse of CRPF personnel was also deployed to prevent the situation from going out of control. Das was later arrested and a case registered against him at the traffic branch of Bharalumukh police station.
Local residents blamed reckless driving for the accident. “The car was travelling at a breakneck speed as a result of which the driver lost control and hit the pedestrians,” Mridu Paban Nath, an eyewitness, said.
The accident disrupted traffic movement on AT Road at Bharalumukh. It took police one-and-a-half hours to restore normal traffic flow along the affected stretch.
In two separate mishaps, 15 people were injured in the city today.
Police said 12 people were injured, two of them critically, when a Byrnihat-bound city bus met with an accident near Veterinary College at Khanapara around 11.30am.
The bus hit a road divider and then an electric pole after the driver lost control. The police said the driver was absconding.
At Lachitpur, three persons, including a woman, sustained injuries in a collision between a dumper truck, a Bolero and a Tata Magic on Guwahati-Hajo Road on the outskirts of the city around noon.
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