Truck crushes two women to death in Tamil Nadu

TIRUVANNAMALAI: Two

women

riding pillion on two-wheeler were crushed to death by a container

truck

near Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. Two-wheeler rider escaped with fractures on his leg.

The deceased have been identified as K Manavarthal, 50, and A Sathiya, 35. The injured man, K Sasikumar, 29, was the son of Manavarthal. All three were from Chinna Kottangal village near Tiruvannamalai.



Sasikumar, who worked as a pharmacist in a siddha hospital, was travelling with his mother and Sathiya, who was his neighbour, to drop them at a private nursery where they worked as helpers.

While the trio was crossing Tiruvannamalai Old Government Hospital, a container truck that was going to Puducherry from

Gujarat

tried to overtake the motorcycle. The truck rammed the two-wheeler from behind. The women fell off the motorcycle and were run over by the truck. “Sasikumar fell on the other side of the truck and suffered a fracture on his leg,” said Tiruvannamalai ADSP T Ashok Kumar.

Vinayagamoorthy, inspector at Tiruvannamalai town police station, said, “All three of them were taken to Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College and Hospital. Doctors, who checked the women, declared them as dead on arrival.”

Based on a complaint filed by Sasikumar, truck driver P Rajaram, 42, from Gujarat was arrested and booked under sections 279, 337 and 304A of the IPC. Further investigations were on.