Coimbatore: Three members of a family were killed, and 14 people were injured in a road accident near the
Karnataka -Tamil Nadu border on Friday morning.
The deceased were identified as
Subramani, 60, and his wife Amaravathi 60, of Perumanallur in
Tirupur district and their daughter Gokila, 45, from
Palani.
Sixteen people from Perumanallur and surrounding areas were on the way to the Chamundeshwari Temple in
Mysuru in a van.
Tirupur resident Arunkumar was behind the wheel.
“He lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a curve near the Suvarnavathi Reservoir around 5am and the vehicle overturned, and fell into a ditch. Three people died on the spot,” a police officer said.
The Chamarajanagar police rescued nine women and eight men including the driver and took them to the government hospital.
The bodies were handed over to the relatives after postomortem on Friday evening.