Nine killed as van carrying Malappuram schoolteachers plunges off Valparai cliff

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Most of the passengers successful the van were teachers of Government Lower Primary School, Pang, and their household members. The van reportedly fell from hairpin crook fig 13 and tumbled down to hairpin crook fig 9.

Published - April 17, 2026 08:50 p.m. IST - MALAPPURAM

A photograph of the teachers that was taken astatine Athirappilly en way to Valparai connected Friday morning. The photograph was shared successful a societal media radical of the teachers.

Nine members of a 12-member excursion radical from Pang successful Kuruva panchayat successful Malappuram territory were killed erstwhile their van plunged disconnected a cliff astatine Valparai successful Tamil Nadu connected Friday afternoon.

The remaining members of the radical were admitted to hospitals with injuries. Three of the critically injured were shifted from Pollachi to a infirmary successful Coimbatore for precocious treatment.

Published - April 17, 2026 08:50 p.m. IST

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