8 Tamil Nadu students killed after speeding car rams parked lorry on highway in Kerala

Eight students from Tamil Nadu died after their car hit a parked lorry on a highway in Kerala's Thrissur district, police said. CCTV footage captured the incident, and the bodies were sent to the mortuary at Thrissur Medical College.

In Short

• Car hit parked lorry on under-construction NH-66 stretch in Thrissur
• Victims were students from engineering college in Tamil Nadu
• Car had Tamil Nadu registration; victims' bodies sent to mortuary

Eight students from Tamil Nadu were killed after the car they were travelling in crashed into a lorry parked on a highway in Kerala’s Thrissur district, police said on Saturday.

The accident occurred around 11:40 pm on Friday in Kaipamangalam. CCTV footage shows the car speeding along an almost empty National Highway-66 before crashing into the lorry, which is not visible in the footage. A puff of dust can be seen rising immediately after the impact.

Preliminary information suggested that the victims were students of PSM Engineering College in Tamil Nadu's Dindigul.

The car, which had a Tamil Nadu registration, was travelling from the Guruvayur side towards Kodungallur when it crashed into the lorry, which was parked at a diversion on an under-construction stretch of the highway.

All eight occupants died on the spot, police said.

The occupants had to be pulled out of the mangled car by cutting it open. Locals, fire and rescue personnel and police took part in the rescue operation.

The bodies were taken to the mortuary at Thrissur Medical College, police said.

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(with PTI inputs)