Kolar, Mar 23: Two students and a motorbike rider were killed and another student was injured in an accident at Vadagur Gate off NH 75 on the outskirts of Kolar on Thursday evening.
According to the police, Narayanaswamy, 13, Sudarshan, 14, and Vijaykumar, 14, were walking home from Janata High School in Kembodi when they were knocked down by a biker who had allegedly been hit by a car around 5 p.m.
The three boys and the motorcyclist Venkatappa, 30, were taken to R.L. Jalappa Hospital at Tamaka where Sudarshan was declared brought dead. Narayanaswamy and Venkatappa succumbed to their injuries later in the day.
The car was coming from Bengaluru and heading towards Mulbagal, said the police. “We suspect the driver of the car panicked on suddenly seeing the motorbike. He hit the two-wheeler, which ran over the students,” said a police officer.
But some people claimed that the students were hit by the car, whose driver fled from the spot.
Family members of the deceased students and other villagers gathered at the site to protest and mourn the children’s deaths. Traffic on NH 75 was affected for some time.
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