In a gruesome accident, nine people were killed and more than 50 others injured when a tourist bus carrying school children rammed into a KSRTC bus at Vadakkenchery in the district in the early hours of Thursday.
Five of the dead were students of the Baselios Vidyanikethan School, Vettikkal, Mulanthuruthy, Kochi. The tourist bus was carrying 42 students and five teachers of the school to Ooty. The KSRTC bus was going to Coimbatore from Kottarakkara. There were 49 passengers in the KSRTC bus.
