Six persons were killed and 64 others were injured when a State Express Transport Corporation bus collided with an omni-bus on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway at Chettiyappanur near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur in the early hours of Saturday. The police said the drowsiness of the deceased SETC bus driver might have caused the accident.
The police said the deceased were identified as Mohammed Fairoz, 37, of Vaniyambadi; S. Rithika, 32, of Guduvanchery near Chennai; K. Elumalai, 47, of Ulundurpet in Kallakurichi; B. Ajith, 25, of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh; N. Syed Mumtaz, 42, of Kolar in Karnataka; and M. Raji, 49, of Adyar in Chennai. Ellumalai and Syed were the drivers of the SETC bus and omni-bus respectively.
