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- Five people, including four members of a family, were killed on the spot when their speeding car crashed into a stationary water tanker lorry on the Udumalaipettai-Pollachi National Highway near Coimbatore on Sunday.
- The tanker had stopped along the highway median to water roadside plants.
- The victims were two men and three women, identified as Kanagaraj, his wife Narmada, and their daughters Aarthi and Poorani, with the fifth victim not yet identified.
- Police have registered a case and are investigating the sequence of events that led to the crash.
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- Identification of the fifth victim
- Findings of the police investigation into the exact cause of the crash
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Named India · Aarthi · Coimbatore · Gurubampalayam · Kanagaraj · Madukkarai · Narmada · Poorani · Tamil Nadu · Udumalaipettai-Pollachi National Highway · Gomangalam police station · Pollachi Government Hospital
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