TIRUPATTUR: Three boys cycling to school were run over by a speeding car that swerved off the highway onto the service road near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur district of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning.
Police said Class VIII student Vijay and his brother Suriya, a class VI student, were on one bicycle while Vijay’s classmate Rafique was riding another bicycle when they were mowed down. Seven students from a private engineering college in Vellore were returning from a trip to Yellagiri when the driver, third-year student Santhosh, lost control of the car and hit the schoolboys.
Scores of villagers gathered at the spot and some of them assaulted the driver. The bodies of the children were sent to Vaniyambadi government general hospital for postmortem. Police arrested Santhosh and booked him for rash driving and causing death by negligence.