Shillong, Oct. 21: A young mother died saving her children when their Silchar-bound bus hit a truck and plunged into a gorge around 2.30am at Sohryngkham in East Khasi Hills.
Four others died from the fall while 43, including a newly married couple, were injured.
The night bus from Guwahati collided with the truck at top speed before it hurtled down the 30-metre gorge, police said.
Most of the injured were taken to Shillong Civil Hospital.
Among them are five-year-old Tamudta and his three-year-old-sister, Tuktara, wailing from multiple injuries, unaware that they have lost their mother.
Kalpana Rajbongshi, 35, from Baksa district of Assam, had boarded the night bus with her children and was on her way to meet her husband, who is a labourer in Jaintia Hills.
A passenger sitting next to Kalpana said when the bus began speeding down the gorge, the mother buried the children in her lap to save them from injuries as long as she could.
Rescue workers recovered Kalpana’s body this morning. The children lay nearby, severely bruised but breathing.
Once in hospital, Tamudta began asking for his mother, to which the nurses had no answer.
The staff are now waiting for their father to come from Lad Rymbai and take the children home.
The other four killed are yet to be identified.
Sitting beside his wife with a bandaged head in the Shillong hospital, it was a honeymoon-turned-nightmare for 24-year-old Harjit Sinha.
Sinha, from Manipur, was headed for Jowai, where his 20-year-old wife Regha’s family is based.
The passengers said the accident had occurred because of reckless driving.
The driver ought to have been more careful on the winding roads on Meghalaya’s hilly terrain, the police said.source: the telegraph india
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