Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed condolences to bereaved families, while Cabinet Minister Atul Bora reached the accident site to oversee relief arrangements.
The Khadoor Sahib MP, currently lodged at Dibrugarh Central Jail, has been granted permission to attend the cremation of his 84-year-old grandmother, Charan Kaur, in Punjab
Around 35 passengers were travelling in the Traveller minibus when it collided head-on with a container truck at Rangajan in Assam's Golaghat district on Friday.