Bengaluru: 4 techies dead in Nice Road pile-up

BENGALURU: Four software professionals were killed after their car was hit by a truck, leading to a pile-up on

Nice Road

, off Kanakapura Road, around 10.30pm Friday.


The victims – two men and two women, all from

Bommanahalli

and in their 30s - were on their way to

Kengeri

when the TN-registered truck hit their Maruti WagonR bearing a Kerala licence plate.

The car went on to hit several vehicles ahead of it and all the four occupants were crushed to death as they were stuck between vehicles. Three trucks and five cars were involved in the pile-up.

Barring two cars, all other vehicles were severely damaged. Kumaraswamy Layout traffic police said several others were injured, but they are yet to ascertain the exact number as they had all been taken to various hospitals.