Five injured in road mishap

Kancheepuram, Jan 9 (UNI) Five persons were injured, two of them seriously when the car in which they were travelling hit a lorry carrying LPG cylinder at Acharapakkam on the Chennai-Tiruchirapalli National Highway near here yesterday.

Police said the occupants of the car were employees of a popular English daily. They were proceeding to Tiruchirappalli, when the mishap occurred.

The injured were first rushed to Government Headquarters Hospital Chengalpattu, from where they were referred to a private hospital in Chennai.

UNI