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Tamil Nadu: A people dead and 20 others were injured after a bus carrying 45 people from Chennai to Coimbatore overturned and fell into a ditch near the Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu. According to the police, the deceased was identified as Manikandan. He was a resident of Kanyakumari.
The Driver was identified as Arun Kumar. He was 30-year-old. According to police, the incident happened after the driver lost control of the vehicle near the Chengalpattu district, next to Pazhaveli village on the Chennai-Trichy National Highway.
The bus overturned and plunged into a roadside ditch as the driver lost control. Shortly after receiving information about the accident, a team of Chengalpattu Taluk police reached the spot and recovered the body of the deceased.
The police, thereafter, sent the body to Chengalpattu Government Hospital for post-mortem. The twenty people with injuries received medical attention before being admitted to a nearby hospital in Chengalpattu district.
Chengalpattu taluk police registered a case related to the accident. Police informed that There was a heavy traffic jam in both directions of the Chennai-Trichy National Highway in the immediate aftermath of the accident. The police said that a probe is underway.
