6 pilgrims from Kerala killed in TN road mishap

Six people from Kerala on their way to the famous Lord Muruga temple here were killed and two others seriously injured in a car-lorry collision today, police said.

The six, including two women, died on the spot when the car in which they were travelling and a lorry collided head-on near here early this morning, they said.

The injured had been hospitalised.

The occupants of the car from Kottayam district in Kerala were on a pilgrimage trip to the hill shrine of Lord Muruga here in Dindigul district, over 110 kms from Madurai, police said.