Two killed, one injured as bikes collide

Coimbatore: Two people, one of them an 11-year-old school girl, were killed and another person was severely injured after two bikes collided near Periyanaickenpalayam here on Saturday.
The Periyanaickenpalayam police said the incident occurred when 20-year-old Hrithik, son of Johnson- Kavitha couple from Udhagamandalam in the Nilgiris district, was returning to his relative Arunadevi’s house at Mathampalayam with her daughter Harini, a Class VI student, riding pillion on his bike after visiting a post office.
A police officer said Hrithik, along with his parents, had come to the house of Arunadevi, a tailor, on Saturday morning. He was a student of the government polytechnic college at Udhagamandalam. “In the evening, Hrithik went out with Harini to take printouts of his online exam paper and mail it to the college from a post office at Veerapandi Pirivu. While they were returning home, his bike collided with another bike that was rode by 44-year-old Sadaiyappan, a mill worker from Santhimedu area,” the officer said.
Sadaiyappan, the officer said, was trying to cross the busy Mettupalayam-Coimbatore road when Hrithik’s bike crashed into his two-wheeler. “All the three passengers were thrown off their vehicles in the impact of the collusion. Both Sadaiyappan and Harini died on the spot, while Hrithik was rushed to a private hospital with severe injuries. He is stable.”