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Guwahati : A woman was seriously injured while she had jumped off a speeding vehicle to escape an alleged rape attempt in Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Monday night.
The injured woman was admitted at Golaghat civil hospital.
The physician of the government run hospital said that the woman sustained injuries on her head and an eye.
The incident took place at Silanijan, bordering area of Karbi Anglong and Golaghat district on Monday night, while she was travelling from her birthplace Titabor in Jorhat district to Silanijan, where she lived after her marriage.
A relative of the woman said that, she boarded a goods laden vehicle from Golaghat to Silanijan after she wouldn't get a passenger bus.
The woman asked the driver of the goods laden vehicle to drop her at Silanijan, but the vehicle didn't stop and some people of the vehicle tried to attempt rape her.
"Following the unfortunate situation she jumped off from the vehicle at a bridge near the Nambor reserve forest," the relative of the woman said.
Local people had rescued the woman in serious condition and immediately admitted at the government run hospital.
A top police official said that, police has took the matter seriously and started investigation and launched operation to nab the culprits.
In past a decade, over 15,000 women were raped in Assam.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
