Digboi, Sept. 17 -- Anger and grief erupted in Assam's Digboi on Wednesday as hundreds of residents and student organizations blocked the Digboi-Pengaree NEC Road near Bapapung, staging a dramatic protest following the death of 19-year-old Daulat Phukan of Pengaree.

Phukan, a trainee at the Fire and Safety Institute, was returning to classes with a friend on the evening of September 14 when his scooty rammed into an exposed under-construction culvert close to the institute at Bapapung, under the jurisdiction of Digboi police station.

Despite undergoing emergency brain surgery, he succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Dibrugarh on Wednesday morning.

Enraged protesters soon placed Phukan's body on the NEC road, paralyzing tr...