As many as seven people, including a five-year-old child, were killed in a road accident on the National Highway near Gunda forest of Hosapete, Vijayanagara district, on Monday.
As per preliminary information provided by the authorities concerned, an SUV, coming from Harapanahalli and going to Hosapete, was hit by a truck that was coming in the opposite direction but somehow crossed the road divider.
Within minutes, a tipper truck that was following the SUV hit the vehicle from behind killing all the seven people in it.
