India, Jan. 4 -- Six people, including four police personnel, were injured on Sunday after escort vehicles in Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal's convoy collided with a car on the Hatiali Bypass in Assam's Dibrugarh district, police said.

The accident took place in the afternoon when Sonowal, former Assam chief minister, and Rajya Sabha MP Rameswar Teli were travelling from Dibrugarh to Sonowal's ancestral village, Bindhakata, in Chabua.

According to police officers, three vehicles from the minister's convoy were involved in the collision after one of the vehicles hit a Hyundai Creta.

Police officers added that the vehicle carrying Sonowal was not one of them and that Teli escaped unhurt.

"Today afternoon, one escort vehicle from the ...