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Twenty persons travelling connected a tourer autobus were injured aft the conveyance crashed on the Coonoor-Mettupalayam Road adjacent Kattery Park successful The Nilgiris connected Wednesday evening.
According to police, 26 tourists from Visakhapatnam successful Andhra Pradesh came to Udhagamandalam and Coonoor for sight-seeing. The incidental occurred erstwhile they were returning to Coimbatore, wherever they were scheduled to committee a bid backmost to Visakhapatnam.
After the incident, locals, constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service unit rushed to assistance the injured. Most passengers suffered lone insignificant injuries, and were taken to Coonoor for treatment. However, the driver, identified arsenic Seenu, got trapped wrong the wreckage, and it took the rescuers implicit an hr to get him out. He suffered superior injuries and was referred to Coimbatore for further treatment.
Of the injured, 14 were admitted to a infirmary for treatment. The others were treated for insignificant injuries and discharged.
