LONDON: Three Wipro employees were among eight Indians and British-Indians killed in a deadly accident on a highway in southern England in which a mini bus got crushed between two trucks, in one of the worst road accidents in the country in decades.
Two lorry drivers have been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
Three passengers, including a five-year-old girl, are fighting for their lives.
The bus was carrying a group of 11 passengers who were being driven to London to meet a coach which was taking them on a last minute holiday to France.
Three of the six men and two women who lost their lives in the pile-up have now been named Indian nationals who were working for Nottingham firm Capital One.
“It is with deep regret and sadness that we confirm the passing away of three of our colleagues, Karthikeyan Ramasubramaniyam Pugalur, Rishi Rajeev Kumar, and Vivek Bhaskaran in a tragic road accident in the UK,” a spokesman for Wipro, the agency which had arranged the contracts, said.
Another employee, Mano Ranjan Panneerselvam, is one of those critically injured in hospital along with the five- year-old girl who is understood to be the daughter of one of the other passengers.
Panneerselvam’s wife and mother are said by relatives to be the other women who were hospitalised, whilst three of his family members are understood to be among the dead. (AGENCIES)
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