Himashree Boro Death: What Happened on the Vivek Express

The death of 20-year-old Himashree Boro has left her family and the wider Assam community searching for answers after she disappeared during a train journey from Visakhapatnam to Guwahati and was later found dead beside railway tracks in Andhra Pradesh. Boro, a student of B. Borooah College in Guwahati, was travelling alone on Train No.
22503, the Kanyakumari–Dibrugarh Vivek Express, after travelling to Andhra Pradesh for a dance programme. Her family says she contacted a friend during the journey and reported that she was uncomfortable and felt unsafe around several men. Her body was later…
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- Section
- Tech
- Topics
- Crime & safety, Railways & travel
- Places
- Andhra Pradesh, Assam
- First reported by
- Stackumbrella
- Reporter
- preeti sanodiya
- Published
- Thursday, 8 October 2026, 3:28 pm IST
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- One outlet so far
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