Five persons, including four women, were killed when a school bus collided with an autorickshaw they were travelling in at Badiyadka in Kasaragod at 5.20 p.m. on Monday
Of the five, four persons died on the spot. The auto driver succumbed to his injuries en route to hospital.
An officer of the Badiadka police station said, according to preliminary investigation, the bus was speeding and coming from the wrong direction around a curve and that led to the accident.
