: Six people were killed Wednesday when the car they were travelling in rammed into a container lorry near here, police said.
The Chennai-bound car hit the truck which was getting onto the highway from a petrol bunk at Wallajapet, about 30 km from here.
Four men and two women died in the mishap, a police official told PTI.
It is not known if anybody was injured. Further details are awaited, police said.
The bodies have been removed from the vehicle and sent for autopsy at a government hospital.