Dhubri (Assam), Oct 14 : At least 23 people were killed and 44 others injured in a bus accident in lower Assam''s Dhubri District in the wee hours on Tuesday.

According to official sources, the accident took place at around 12:55 a. m. when a speeding bus collided with a truck at Bengtoli Chariali under Bilasipara police station of the district.

The bus was on its way from Pagladia to Hajo.

Dhubri (Assam), Oct 14 : At least 23 people were killed and 44 others injured in a bus accident in lower Assam''s Dhubri District in the wee hours on Tuesday.

According to official sources, the accident took place at around 12:55 a. m. when a speeding bus collided with a truck at Bengtoli Chariali under Bilasipara police station of the district.

The bus was on its way from Pagladia to Hajo. 

Fifteen people died on the spot and eight others, including five women, six children, succumbed to their injuries at Bilasipara Hospital.

New Delhi, Oct 12 : The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has sought expulsion of Bangladeshi immigrants from Assam, a demand that is significant as most of the top leaders of the outfit are believed to be sheltered in the neighbouring country.

ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, who made it clear that his outfit will not tolerate any kind of intrusion in Assam, also sought ouster of Nepali migrants from the state.

Guwahati, Oct 8 : The death toll in Assam’s Udalguri and Darrang Districts, dogged by clashes between Bodos and illegal Bangladeshi migrants has risen to 51 with the recovery of 11 bodies today.

New Delhi - The death toll in clashes between Bodo tribesmen and Muslim settlers in India's north-eastern state of Assam rose to 49 and more than 100,000 people fled their homes, officials said Tuesday.

"As many as 49 people have died in violence in four districts, most of them in the Udalgiri and Darrang districts north of state capital Guwahati since Friday," Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said by telephone.

Guwahati, Oct 07: The situation in violence-hit areas of Assam remained calm on Tuesday with no overnight incidents reported.

Assam Government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the situation is fast returning to normal with security forces able to quell the clashes although curfew and shoot-at-sight orders are continuing.

An estimated 8,000 police, army and paramilitary troops were deployed in Udalguri, Darrang, Baska, and Chirang district of Assam after violence broke out on Friday between tribal Bodos and Muslim migrant settlers.