DHARMAPURI: Fourteen buffaloes were killed when a truck carrying them overturned after ramming another truck and a roadside house near
Thoppur
in
Dharmapuri
district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Thursday. Eleven people suffered injuries in the accident.
The truck was carrying 40 buffaloes from Andhra Pradesh to Kerala. Driver Selva Kumar of Ottanchatram in
Dindigul
district lost his control over the truck. The vehicle first rammed a paint-laden truck. Then it rammed a house and a beeda stallbelonging toGanesan, 35,of Thoppur before overturning. The paint-laden trucktoohitthe house. “The house and the beeda stall collapsed,” an officer at Thoppur police station said.
Ganesan, his wife and three children were sleeping in their home, and the debris of the house fell on them. The injured include Ganesan and his family members, truck drivers and five others travelling in the trucks. They were rushed to Dharmapuri Government Medical College and Hospital.
The Thoppur police registered a case.