The injured had been admitted to a authorities hospital in Tirupattur district. (Representational)
Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu:
No less than 5 individuals had been killed and about 60 passengers injured when a state authorities bus and an omnibus collided head-on on the Chennai-Bengaluru nationwide freeway within the early hours of Saturday, police mentioned.
The entrance portion of the 2 automobiles had been utterly smashed. Police who rushed to the spot helped the injured attain hospitals in about ten ambulances, mentioned an official.
4 individuals together with a lady had been killed initially when the State Specific Transport Company bus continuing to Chennai from Bengaluru collided with the Bengaluru-bound omnibus from Chennai at Chettiyappanur close to right here.
Rithika, 32 of Guduvanchery, Mohammed Firoz, 37, of Vaniyambadi, SETC bus driver Okay Elumalai, 47, and B Ajith, 25, of Chittoor died on the spot whereas the omnibus driver N Syed succumbed later, mentioned police.
”The accident occured at about 4 am. The SETC bus hit the median and collided with the omnibus resulting in the mishap,” a police official mentioned.
The injured had been admitted to the Vaniyambadi authorities hospital in Tirupattur district and the Authorities Medical Faculty Hospital in Vellore.
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