Three persons were killed and 40 others injured, most of them seriously, when a bus and a lorry collided head-on at Alangulam in the district today.
Drivers of the state-owned transport corporation bus and the lorry and an unidentified aged woman were killed in the mishap that occurred tonight, police said.
The injured have been rushed to the Government Medical College Hospital here, they said.
The bus was on its way here from Tenkasi while the lorry was coming from the opposite direction.
