Guwahati: As many as 21 labourers were killed while one miraculously survived after a truck carrying 22 workers from Gelapukhuri Assam’s Tinsukia district skidded off a narrow mountain road and plunged nearly 700 metres into a deep gorge near Metengliang in Arunachal Pradesh’s remote Anjaw district, police said on Thursday.

According to preliminary reports, the labourers were travelling to Chhat (Poraghar) in Assam’s Tinsukia district when the vehicle reportedly lost control on the unstable hillside and rolled down the slope. Local authorities and emergency teams rushed to the spot, but steep cliffs and loose soil have slowed down retrieval efforts.

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According to Anjaw Superintendent of P

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