Wayanad: Eight people, mostly women were killed when a jeep they were travelling in fell into a gorge Friday in Wayanad district of Kerala, police said. Police informed that there were at least 12 people in the jeep when the accident took place at around 3.30pm in the Valad-Mananthavady road. “The jeep was returning to Makkimala with women working in a private tea estate,” a local resident told the media.
The victims were rushed to a hospital at Mananthavady but police said eight of them lost their lives by the time they were brought to the hospital. “The condition of at least two people is serious,” a senior police official stated.
Meanwhile Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan directed Forest Minister A K Saseendran, who was in Kozhikode, to rush to the accident site. The CM gave directions to coordinate all measures including the treatment of the injured and take care of other necessary things, a CMO statement said here.