
Four of family die as car rams roadside tree
The Hindu
TIRUCHI Four members of a family died in a road accident and four others were injured after the car in which they were travelling rammed a roadside tree in neighbouring Ariyalur district on Friday. Th
TIRUCHI Four members of a family died in a road accident and four others were injured after the car in which they were travelling rammed a roadside tree in neighbouring Ariyalur district on Friday. The fatal accident occurred in the afternoon on the Perambalur - Manamadurai national highway at Sathamangalam in Ariyalur district. Police identified the deceased as C. Ramamurthy (60), his two daughters A. Nagavalli (23), S. Nagalakshmi (21) and one-year-old granddaughter S. Rithika. Among those injured were Ramamurthy's wife Mohana and two children aged five years and one-and-a-half years, besides the car driver Shankar.
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