GUWAHATI, Nov 14: Jayanti Ravidas and Sujata Tanti, who were due to become sisters-in-law, were killed in a road accident at Rangajan in Kaziranga on Friday.
Jayanti, the only daughter of Kishore Ravidas of Bamunbari Tea Garden in the Tingkhong Assembly constituency of Dibrugarh district, was travelling with Sujata in the passenger Traveller when it met with the accident.
Sujata's marriage to Jayanti's elder brother had been fixed for February. The two were travelling together when the collision took place at Rangajan.
Jayanti had drawn attention through her participation in the 'Jhumoir Binondini' programme.
The Traveller, bearing registration number AS 02 AC 6690, was travelling from Jorhat to Nagaon when it collided head-on with a container truck coming from the opposite direction. A total of 26 people died in the crash.
The deaths of the two women plunged their family and the area into mourning. Jayanti's father, Kishore Ravidas, and other family members were grief-stricken.
