A Staff Reporter
DIMAPUR, FEBRUARY 27
At least two persons have been confirmed killed, and another eight injured, in two separate motor accidents that occurred on Saturday here in Dimapur. Both the deceased persons are women.
At around 1 pm, an auto-rickshaw carrying five passengers slammed into an oncoming vehicle “while trying to avoid hitting a pedestrian crossing the road” at 4th Mile, Dimapur. According to Dimapur Traffic officials, two of the five passengers succumbed to injuries while the remaining three remains in critical condition. The driver of the auto-rickshaw also sustained minor injuries. In another incident, early Saturday morning at around 2 pm, three youths were seriously injured while another escaped with minor injuries when their vehicle ran off the road and into a butcher shop at Duncan Tinalli junction.Traffic officials said that it was a case of drunken driving, and that all the injured persons were receiving medical treatments at various hospitals in Dimapur.
