accident

VADAKARA: A two-year-old child died after a lorry rammed a car stopped to change tyre. The toddler dead has been identified as Muhammed Rahees of Chorode in Vadakara. Eight others sustained serious injuries. The CCTV visuals of the accident have surfaced.

Those injured as Shefeer (45), Saif (14), Fathima (17), Junaid (37), Suhra (55) Gopi (55). The other two are yet to be identified. The injured has been admitted at Koyilandy taluk hospital and Kozhikode Medical College Hospital. The car stopped on the roadside at Palakkulam to change the punctured tyre. As it was very hot, the passengers of the car got out of it and stood outside. The lorry first hit a mini lorry which was behind the car and then the latter.