Four killed, many injured in accident in Mizoram

Aizawl, Jan 22 (PTI) Four persons were killed and several others injured when a mini-truck they were travelling met with accident near West Phaileng village in the Mizoram-Tripura border Mamit district, police said today.

Twenty eight people were travelling in the ill-fated 407truck yesterday and majority of them were from Silsury and Andermanik villages, who were going to West Phaileng village to open their bank accounts under the New Land Use Policy(NLUP), the flagship programme of the ruling Congress, the sources said.

Among those injured, the conditions of four persons were stated to be critical and were brought to the Aizawl Civil Hospital.

Police said that the truck, bearing a Tripura registration, hit a huge block of earth and rolled over on the gorge below the road.