TURA: A 36-year-old man from Tura was killed after he fell off an old unused bridge and plunged into a gorge at Rongkhon near Tura on Tuesday night.
A Swift Desire vehicle was found stranded halfway on the broken bridge. The owner of the car has been identified as Mridul Koch from Tura.
The victim, Anand Borah from Fancy Valley locality, and 3-4 people had tried to cross the bridge in the vehicle, sources said. But after the vehicle got stuck, the occupants got down to push the vehicle and failed to notice that Borah fell off, the sources said.
After trying for some time, others gave up and left presuming that Borah had left. Locals found the body on Wednesday morning and informed police.
West Garo Hills SP M G R Kumar said it was too early to comment on the matter. “For now, we are unable to say what actually happened. Our team visited the site this morning and brought back the body which has been sent for postmortem. Investigation is going on and we will know what happened after we get the postmortem report,” he added.
According to the police chief, a case has been filed.
