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COIMBATORE: A van driver and a 54-year-old woman passenger were killed after the vehicle rammed another van on the L&T bypass on Monday morning.
The deceased were identified as H Mohammed Ashiq, 24, of Komaralingam in Tirupur district and Rajamani, wife of Nataraj of Lakshmi Nagar at Seeranaickenpalayam in Coimbatore.
Nataraj, a private security guard, Rajamani and their grandsons S Kishore, 17 and S Rithish, 7, had visited their relative’s house at Udumalpet in Tirupur district to celebrate Pongal festival. They hired a van and were heading towards Seeranaickenpalayam from Udumalpet on Monday morning. Mohammed Ashiq was driving the vehicle. When the van reached L&T Bypass, another van heading towards Kerala, rammed the vehicle.
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The driver of a van and one of its passengers were killed when a Kerala-bound tourist bus collided with the vehicle at Eachanari on Monday.
N. Rajamani (54), a homemaker from Lakshmi Nagar at Seeranaickenpalayam, and the van driver Mohammad Ashik (24) from Komaralingam in Tiruppur were killed in the accident at the Karpagam College junction at 5.10 a.m.
The police said Rajamani’s husband R. Nataraj (58), who works as a security guard at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, his grandsons S. Rithis (7) S. Kishore (17) and driver of the tourist bus B. Sanu (29), a native of Kunnamangalam in Kozhikode district of Kerala, were injured in the accident.