6 pilgrims from Kerala killed in Tamil Nadu road accident

Six people from Kerala on their way to the famous Lord Muruga temple here were killed and two others seriously injured in a car-lorry collision on Wednesday, police said.

The six, including two women, died on the spot when the car in which they were travelling and a lorry collided head-on near here early on Wednesday, they said.

The injured had been hospitalised.

The occupants of the car from Kottayam district in Kerala were on a pilgrimage trip to the hill shrine of Lord Muruga here in Dindigul district, over 110 kms from Madurai, police said.