TUMAKURU: Two employees of Department of Atomic Energy died on the spot and five medical students suffered injuries in a head-on collision between two cars on the NH-48 Sira bypass on Sunday.
The deceased have been identified as Sriramachandra (43), a manager at the department, from Karatagi in Belagavi and Dhananjaya (45), a technician, from Hebri in Udupi district. They were on their way to Bengaluru when the car in which students of Bangalore Medical College (BMC) were travelling in, is said to have jumped the median and hit their car.
The students were on their way to Sirsi when the accident occurred around 5.30 pm. Three of them have been admitted to the district general hospital here, while two were rushed to a hospital in Bengaluru in a critical state.