Five die as car collides with truck in Tamil Nadu

MADURAI: Five people, including a three-year-old girl and her father, died on the spot when a car they were travelling in collided with a truck at Alangulam on the

Tirunelveli -Tenkasi Main Road

in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning.


The deceased have been identified as Rajasekar, 35, his daughter Thanika, 3, P Murugan, 52, J Niranjan Kumar, 28, and Natarajan. They were natives of KTC Nagar near Tirunelveli.

The accident happened when they were going to

Adaikalapattanam

to buy meat for a marriage party which was to be held later in the day. Their relative, Mahesh, got married on Monday.

The car collided with a truck which was going to Tirunelveli from Tenkasi. Truck driver, K Ganesh Kumar, 26, of Cuddalore, suffered injuries in the accident.

The bodies were sent to Tirunelveli Medical College and Hospital for postmortem. The

Alangulam police

registered a case.

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