24 people, including 19 of a marriage party, killed in road mishaps

Bangalore, May 18 (UNI) As many as 24 people, including 19 members of a marriage party, including the bride, were killed on the spot and 28 others injured in four separate road mishaps that took place during last 24 hours in Karnataka.

Police said that 19 people were killed and another 22 injured when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus collided with a tempo at Halur Cross on National Highway-13, near Bellary in the early hours of today.

The deceased included eight women, six children and the tempo driver. All of them were traveling in the tempo.

In another incident two people, including a 10-year-old boy, was killed and five others injured when a car in which they were traveling rammed into a KSRTC bus near Devanahalli in Mandya District last night.

In yet another mishap two people, including a woman, were killed near Yakkundi town in Bijapur district last night in an hit and run case. The police found the deceased bodies in the Bijapur-Pune national highway this afternoon and suspected that the incident took place last night.

In yet another incident a motorcyclist was killed and another seriously injured when their vehicle collided head-on near Zalki in Bijapur district last night.

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