Erode: Five people, four of them women, were killed and three others were injured after a truck that was destitute with a cement bag collided with Omni van they traveled at Kumaravasal Junction near Parappalaryam here on Thursday afternoon.
Sivagiri police arrested the truck driver.
Police officers said the incident occurred when eight, seven of them Kip and Kin, returned to Muthugoundampalayam at Omni Van after offering prayers at the Dindigul temple in Puni.
“They went to the temple in the early hours.” Iniyappan aka aka Prakash, 24, from Modakurichi in Esta Van, killing all four female passengers and van drivers in place.
Omni Van was destroyed in the impact of the collision, “the officer said 50 years from Kanur Village; and Prakash.
Three other passengers – Mohan Kumar; Kumarsan, 70, from Muthugoundampalayam; and Muthusamy, 40, from Thanuthuppalayam – Sustainable severe injury in the incident.
Other motorists reminded Sivagiri police, who saved injured and Bringing them to college and a government medical hospital which was eroded active.