PALAKKAD: Five people killed in a collision involving a car and lorry at Coimbatore. A Kerala registration Wagon-R car and Tamil Nadu registration lorry collided killing all five passengers of the car. The car driver has been identified as Vallapuzha native Muhammed Basheer. The accident took place at around 5 am on Saturday.

The group was traveling from Palakkad to Kanyakumari. Two persons in the car died on the spot. Three others including Basheer died at the hospital.

The bodies were shifted to a government hospital in Coimbatore for post-mortem. Police have taken the lorry driver into custody.