In Assam, six people, including a six-year-old child were killed in a road accident involving a motorcycle and another vehicle at Boginadi under Boginadi police station in Lakhimpur district on National Highway 52 on Saturday afternoon. The enraged local people set both the motor cycle and the other vehicle afire.<br/><br/>According to police sources, a Dhemaji-bound vehicle from Lakhimpur ran over five people and injured eight others who were on the road side at Boginadi while negotiating a speeding motorcycle coming from the opposite direction. While five people died on the spot, a child succumbed to her injuries in Lakhimpur Civil Hospital. All the injured have been admitted to Lakhimpur Civil Hospital.<br/><br/>IWAI deploys 3 more dredgers on the Brahmaputra National Waterway<br/><br/>The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has deployed three more dredgers on the Brahmaputra National Waterway 2 to improve the least available depth for safe movement of over-dimensional cargo to Neemati, Dibrugarh and Sadiya by next year. The move is aimed at maintaining the least available depth of 2.5 metres up to Neemati and 2 metres up to Dibrugarh and Sadiya. According to IWAI sources, a lot of importance is being given to safe movement of over-dimensional cargo and for this; measures like dredging are being given top priority. Of the three new dredgers, two are cutter section dredgers and one is a hydraulic section dredger. The IWAI had made substantial investment in developing the waterway; it had decided to levy a consolidated fee of Rs 1.50 per tonne per km for over-dimensional cargo movement from this year. Under the new arrangement, the IWAI will sign an MoU with the operators before the movement of cargo and take steps to maintain the least available depth in the entire stretch apart from providing other services.