An overcrowded, speeding bus crashed into a stationary truck in northeastern India on Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others, police said. The bus was carrying laborers to work before dawn in the Dhubri district of India's Assam state, some 185 miles (300 kilometers) west of the state capital, Gauhati. «The bus carrying 67 passengers hit a stationary potato-laden truck with great speed, leading to the fatalities,» Dhubri police chief Parthasarathi Mahanta was quoted as saying by Associated Press.
