6 people including 2 children killed in accident between car and truck-Gamkhwar accident in Karnataka while coming from Tamil Nadu to Gujarat
6 people, including 2 children, were killed in a head-on collision between a car and a truck in Kushtagi taluk of Koppal district of Karnataka on Sunday evening. Giving this information, the police said that the accident took place near Kalkeri village on the national highway.
After much effort, the car was pulled out from the front of the truck with the help of a crane and the bodies of all the deceased have been taken to the hospital for post-mortem, police said. Police have registered a case regarding this incident. Expressing grief over this serious accident, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has announced an aid of two lakh rupees each to the next of kin of the deceased.
According to sources, all the deceased were residents of Vijayapura and were going to Bengaluru in a car. When the truck was going from Tamil Nadu to Gujarat. The accident was so severe that the entire car was pushed into the front of the truck.