Guwahati, July 16 -- Barely five weeks apart, two incidents involving falling trees have exposed growing concerns over public safety in Guwahati, raising questions about whether authorities are doing enough to identify hazardous trees before they turn deadly.

The latest incident occurred outside the Assam Secretariat in Dispur, where a large branch from a decades-old tree suddenly snapped and fell on a parked vehicle belonging to Northeast Now Executive Editor Mahesh Deka. Deka and fellow journalist Chandan Borgohain were inside the car when the branch crashed onto the vehicle. Both escaped unhurt.

The incident has renewed focus on a fatal accident in the city's Bhootnath-Kalipur area on June 12, when college student Parismita Hazarika ...