Three persons were killed in two accidents on the outskirts of Chennai on Saturday and Sunday.
A woman and her brother-in-law were run over by a lorry near Sriperumbudur on Sunday morning.
The police said Bhavani, 28, and her brother-in-law Tamil, 35, from Karnataka were going to Chennai when their car had a flat tyre on Chennai-Bengaluru highway, near Sriperumbudur on Sunday morning. Tamil got down from the car to change the tyre and Bhavani too got down along with him. The lorry ran over them.
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In another accident near Mamallapuram, Balaji Prasad, 23, a college student, died after the car by which he was travelling collided with a lorry on Saturday night near Seekanankuppam. While Balaji Prasad died in the hospital, his two friends, Vikramkumar and Karthikeyan, were under treatment.