Silchar, Nov. 13 -- At least 10 people are feared dead and 22 others critically injured after a passenger vehicle carrying more than 35 people, including school students, collided head-on with a trailer in Assam's Golaghat district on Friday afternoon, police said.

The accident took place at around 2.30 pm, when the passenger vehicle, travelling from Bokakhat towards Nagaon, collided with the goods-carrying vehicle, officers said.

Officers told HT that the number of deaths cannot be ascertained unless doctors confirm them, as the police and security forces are shifting the injured to hospitals.

"Initial reports suggest that seven to ten casualties are possible, but we are waiting for the doctors to confirm," an officer said.

The injur...