April 16, 2026 01:35 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
‘We are surprised’: SC stays Pawan Khera’s bail over remarks on Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife | Historic shift: Bihar gets first BJP CM as Samrat Choudhary takes oath | 'ECI deviated from Bihar procedure': Supreme Court raises concerns over voter deletion in Bengal SIR | Noida workers’ protest turns violent: Stones pelted, vehicles damaged over wage hike demand | Oil prices jump above $103 a barrel as US moves to block Iran-linked shipping | I don’t care if they come back or not, says Trump after Iran talks collapse | Legendary singer Asha Bhosle suffers cardiac arrest, hospitalised | Big boost to India–Mauritius ties: S. Jaishankar hands over 90 e-buses | Middle East tension: Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for major talks, 10,000 security personnel deployed | Ranveer Singh visits RSS HQ amid Dhurandhar 2 success, triggers speculation

Assam lady journo dies after a speedy truck hit her in Guwahati

| | Aug 27, 2017, at 10:26 pm
Guwahati, Aug 27 (IBNS) : A lady journalist of a local news channel in Assam was killed while a speedy truck hit her in Guwahati on Saturday night.

According to the reports, the incident took place at GS road near Dona planet in the capital city of Assam.

The speedy bricks laden truck hit the lady journalist identified as Reema Sarma worked in Prag News, while she came from Dona planet with her scooty.

Local people had immediately rushed her to Guwahati Mediacl College Hospital (GMCH), but doctor declared to death.

The truck had fled from the area after the incident.

Meanwhile, Guwahati city traffic police SP Amanjeet Kaur said police is trying to capture the truck and arrest the driver after seeing the CCTV footage.

Several media, civil society, political organizations have condoled on the demise of the journalist.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.