Seven women, who were sitting on the low-level concrete median, were killed when a tourist van fell on them after it was hit by a goods-laden lorry on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) at Sandaipalli village near Natrampalli town in Tirupattur district in the early hours on September 11.
Police said that ten persons including the drivers of the van and the lorry were injured in the accident. Of the injured persons, five of them are women. The victims were identified as M. Meena (50), D. Devayani (32), P. Saittu (55), S. Devika (50), V. Savitri (42), K. Kalavathi (50) and R. Geetha (34). All of them belong to Pernambut town in Vellore district
Along with eight relatives from Pernambut town, the deceased women were on a tourist visit to pilgrim and tourist centres in Karnataka from September 8 onwards. They had hired a tourist van for the purpose.