23 students injured as goods train rams college bus in Karur

Twenty-three students of an engineering assemblage were injured erstwhile a goods bid of a backstage cement mill rammed a autobus astatine an unmanned backstage railway crossing astatine Sallipatti adjacent Velliyanai connected Saturday.

The incidental occurred connected a backstage railway enactment owned and operated by Chettinad Cement betwixt Veerarakkiyam and Palayam. The train, transporting goods betwixt the factory’s plants, rammed the autobus that was carrying 25 students from the college, located successful Karudayampalayam. Of the 25 students, 23 sustained injuries, the constabulary said. A information of the autobus suffered extended harm successful the impact.