DIMAPUR: In an unfortunate incident, six individuals received minor injuries after a truck carrying huge logs of trees hit an electric post and fell over the house where two families were temporarily residing.
The incident occurred at Thahekhu village around 11 pm 0n 25th oct 2024, where the truck was reported to have lose the control and thus hitting the electric post and fell below the national highway(NH), damaging several houses and the auto rickshaw that was parked in the compound. At the time the accident happened it is reported that the two families, total eight of them were sleeping at the moment. According to the report, luckily none of them were seriously injured however six of them faced with a minor injury and was immediately rushed to the civil hospital Dimapur for treatment.
It was reported that the victims eight of them had to be pulled out one after the another from underneath the truck that fell on top of them while they were sleeping. The victims also shared that the truck driver was no where to be seen and has eloped, abandoning the truck and the scene of the accident by the time the victims and the neighbours came out from their homes to check.
It is also reported that the two families who fell victim to the truck accident at Thahekhu village, leaving them homeless and traumatized will be looked after by the Thahekhu village council and all kinds of basic necessities will be provided by them to the victims that has suffered the loss because of a tragic accident.
