Seventeen college girls from Chennai and Kancheepuram districts, all ball badminton players, were injured when a bus by which they were travelling overturned after hitting a tree at Mecheri on Saturday. The police said the girls reached Mecheri by train to take part in a junior inter-district ball badminton championship. The accident occurred when they were going to the venue. They were treated at Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital. B. Charulatha of Pammal was taken to a private hospital with head injury.
MLAs G. Venkatachalam and A. B. Sakthivel visited the injured.