According to police, a group of third year BDS students of SRM University, Kattangulathur in Chennai visited Pattukkottai on Wednesday to attend the funeral of their classmate’s mother Sugashree and later proceeded towards Tiruchy to board a train from there to Chennai.
As the car was moving between Pudukkudi and Navalur on Thanjavur -Tiruchy NH during the early hours of Thursday, the driver M Akthar of Tiruchy lost control. The vehicle overturned and strayed away from the highway into the nearby ground.
S Mohammed Niyas (21) of Quaide-milleth Nagar, Thennur in Tiruchy, N Dhivya Bharathi (21) of Monisha Nagar in Ayyar Bunglow area of Madurai were killed on the spot.
Other students S Priya Darshini Indira (21) of Tiruchy, Y Shailaja Rao (20) of Mumbai, S Sathyapriya (20) of Madurai, R Suha Janani (21) of Salem, V Akshaya Keerthi (21) of Tiruchengodu, M Tina Christiane (20) of Tiruchy and the driver Akthar of Tiruchy were injured and rushed to the Appollo hospital in Tiruchy.
Based on a complaint by a student, Bahath Ahamed (21) of Madukkur, who sustained minor injuries, police registered a case. Further investigations are on.
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