11 killed in Karnataka road mishap

Eleven people were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a van and a private bus in Chikkaballapura district in Karnataka Wednesday, police said. The van was reduced to a mangled heap of metal under the impact of the collision that occurred at Murugamalla near Chintamani town, about 100 km from here, they said.

The deceased included three women and all of them were travelling in the passenger van used for short-distance trips, police said. Earlier, quoting initial information, the police had identified it as a mini-goods carrier. The injured, who were travelling in the bus, have been admitted to a nearby hospital, police said.

Expressing his grief over the accident, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy announced a relief of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased.