This story is from December 31, 2020

14 buffaloes being transported to Kerala killed in Tamil Nadu road accident

14 buffaloes being transported to Kerala killed in Tamil Nadu road accident
The truck was carrying 40 buffaloes from Andhra Pradesh to Kerala. Photo by A M Shudhakar
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 stall belonging to Ganesan, 35, of Thoppur before overturning. The paint-laden truck too hit the 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.
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