At least 24 people, most of them reportedly students, were killed and several others injured when a passenger-packed Traveller collided head-on with a container truck near Kaziranga in Assam's Golaghat district. The Traveller was travelling from Bokakhat to Nagaon on National Highway 715 when the accident occurred. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the tragedy and announced an ex-gratia payment of ₹2 lakh from the PMNRF for the families of each.