Madikeri/Tumakuru: As many as eleven people, including five children, were killed in two brutal road accidents in Karnataka on Friday. Six people were killed and two injured grievously after the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a state government bus at Sampaje Gate in Kodagu district.
The six deceased include three children and two women. They were going from Maddur in Mandya district to Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district when their vehicle was hit by the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus.
In the other mishap, five people, including four of a family comprising a couple and two children, were killed and seven injured in a collision involving a private bus and a sports utility vehicle at Sira in Tumakuru district.
They were residents of Bengaluru and were on their way to Challakere in Chitradurga where they hail from, the police said. The impact of the accident was so severe that the SUV was badly mangled and bodies were mutilated. It is said that the bus crashed into a road divider before hitting the SUV. Those injured were in the bus and they have been admitted to a nearby hospital.
(With PTI inputs)
