Four persons, including a one-year-old, were killed and 11 were injured after a tourist vehicle from Tamil Nadu fell into a gorge near Mankulam in Idukki on Tuesday around 4.30 p.m.
The dead were identified as P.K. Sethu, 34, Gunasekharan, 70, Abhinash Moorthy, 30, and his son Thanwik, one. The injured are Arumukham, 63, Sharnya, 24 , Vaiga, 12 , Geetha, 30, Ranveer, 6, Sandhyavalli, 55, Prasanna, 39, Devachand, 9, Jyothi Mani, 65, Annapushpam, 60, and driver Obli Raj, 39. All the injured and the dead are from Tamil Nadu.
The police said the incident took place at Pemaram, near Anakkulam, under the Adimaly police station limits. The tourists from Theni and Erode were en route to Anakkulam in Mankulam.
