Mangalore, March 11: Four persons were killed and six others suffered serious injuries, when the car they were travelling in collided with an oncoming lorry on National Highway 48 near Addyar-Kannur on the outskirts of the city on Friday night, police sources said.
Deceased have been identified as Rakshith alias Shabari, Mushtaq Rahman, Nazeer Ahmed and Abdussamad Thangal. The injured are Mohammed Rafeeq, Basheer, Ashraf, Nandakumar, Ramachandra, car driver Aboobakar and lorry driver Shankar.
The accident has resulted in traffic jam on the high way for at least half an hour as a large number of local people gathered in the spot.
The Ambassador car carrying nine persons was on its way to BC Road from Mangalore while the tanker was coming to the city from BC Road.
The lorry driver was said to have been drunk and came on the wrong side and collided against the ill-fated car.
The impact of the mishap was such that the Ambassador car reduced to a bundle of metal.
According to the eye witnesses, the accident occurred at around 9:15 pm, when the driver of the lorry lost control over his vehicle and hit the car, which trapped under the wheels of the lorry.
The road was splashed with blood and the scene at the accident spot was terrifying.
Within a few minutes, ambulances reached the spot and shifted the dead bodies and injured to different hospitals in the city.
A case has been registered under Mangalore rural police station.
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