Six persons, including three women and an infant, died and four suffered serious injuries in a road accident at Bhagavati Cross in Bagalkot taluk on Thursday.
The dead were identified as Ramanna (65), Yellavva (63), Hanumavva (35), Parvatamma (60), Manjappa (24) and the infant, Annappa.
According to the police, the accident took place when the mini public carrier collided with a government bus which on its way from Muddebihal taluk in Vijayapura district to Bagalkot.
The public carrier was reportedly carrying 18 persons. Also, several passengers suffered minor injuries. The injured have been admitted to the government hospital.
The passengers are said to belong to Bharamatti and Hullur villages in the district. They were going back to their villages.
The police rushed to the spot and shifted the victims to hospital.
Three mowed down
Girish Pattanshetti reports from Dharwad:
Two truck drivers and a cleaner, who alighted from their trucks and were going to a roadside inn for tea, were mowed down by a lorry on Pune-Bengaluru National Highway No. 4 near Dharwad on Thursday.
The dead were identified as driver Nizamuddin Khan (45) from Uttar Pradesh, cleaner Kedar Yadav (30) and driver M. Kumarswamy (40) from Ahmedabad in Gujarat. They had parked their trucks near the Kotur Dhaba.
On impact, the drivers and the cleaner were thrown up in air and their mutilated bodies were found 50 ft away from the site of the accident.
Driver flees
The driver of the lorry fled the scene, eyewitnesses said.
