College student killed, another injured in head-on collision with tourist bus near Thiruvadanai

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A college student was killed in a road accident and another student was seriously injured after a tourist bus collided with their two-wheeler near Thiruvadanai here on Friday.

Police said, M. Jeswin Raj, 19, hailing from R.S. Mangalam in Ramanathapuram district, and R. Robert, 20, hailing from Manickavasagam Nagar in Ilayangudi, Sivaganga district, were friends. Both of them were studying at a private college in Tiruchi.

As they were returning home for the Ayudha Pooja holidays, the two of them were traveling from Tiruchi towards R.S. Mangalam on a two-wheeler.

Near Chinnakeeramangalam on the Tiruchi-Rameswaram National Highway, a tourist bus which was going in the opposite direction, from Rameswaram towards Andhra Pradesh, collided head-on with their two-wheeler.

Jeswin Raj got trapped under the wheel of the bus and died on the spot. Robert, who sustained serious injuries, was rescued by bystanders and sent to the Thiruvadanai Government Hospital.

Thiruvadanai police retrieved the body of Jeswin Raj and sent it to the Thiruvadanai Government Hospital for a post-mortem examination. In this connection, the police have arrested the bus driver, Somashekar, 37, from Andhra Pradesh, and are conducting an investigation.

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