The death toll for the tragedy of "Ulto Rath" procession of the ISKCON temple of Kumarghat on Friday reached at 10 as one more seriously injured woman succumbed due to her critical burn injuries at a New Delhi based hospital.

Sources said that after the tragic incident on June 28th last, one of the many injured Ruma Ghosh (30) was referred to Unakoti district hospital from Kumarghat hospital and after her condition deteriorated, she was referred to GB Hospital. Along with Ruma Ghosh, her two daughters Priyanka Ghosh (7) and her elder daughter Diya Ghosh were also suffered critical injuries. On the day of incident on way to GB Hospital seriously injured Priyanka Ghosh succumbed due to her critical injuries. While, Diya Ghosh are still under treatment in a Delhi based hospital and due to her critical injuries , one of her hand has also cut off the doctors.

After battling for life for many days at the ICU of GB Hospital, a few days ago Mrs Ghosh was referred to a Delhi based hospital for improved treatment, but she breathed her last on Friday. On Saturday, the mortal remains of Ruma Ghosh were brought to her village from Delhi for last rites.

On the ill-fated day of "Ulto Rath", altogether seven persons were killed and as many as 20 more suffered injuries when the chariot of ‘return Rath Yatra’ ISKCON temple struck with 33 KV high tension electric wire in the middle of National Highway-8 in Kumarghat area of Unakoti district on June 28 afternoon.

When the ‘return Rath’ with Lord Jagannath, Lord Balaram and Goddess Shubhadra started its journey and reached Kumarghat town hall area via SDM office, the iron made chariot with heavily decorated came into contact with an overhead electric wire, which caused a surge of electricity and killing seven people and injured 20 more due to electrocution.

Those people were engaged with pulling off the chariot from the back side by pressing its iron made bars contacted with high tension electric shock and within seconds their bodies started burning. Amidst massive hue and cry over the pathetic scenes of the burning bodies in the middle of the road, few people boarded at the chariot started jumping from the top the chariot and escaped themselves from electric shock.

Earlier, Nine dead persons were identified as Sima Paul (33) of Shibtali, Sushmita Baishya (30) of Shib Mandir area, Rupak Das (40), Soma Biswas (28), Rohan Das (9),Shan Malakar (9),Ratna Rani Dhar (49) and  Droupadi Malakar of 91-Mile area of Kumarghat t, all were residents of Kumarghat. Among the critically injured persons, nine were shifted to GB Hospital and among them, three injured persons were also referred to Delhi for better treatment and their treatment cost has been borne by the state government.

So far, the enquiry of the incident ordered by the state government by the District Magistrate (DM) of Unakoti district does not have any progress, though the Kumarghat police station has registered a Suo-Motu FIR, but after passing of many days, till the investigation team does not record the statements of eye witnesses.