Bangalore, Nov 07: Eleven employees of the block education office were killed on the spot in a head-on collision between the jeep carrying them and a lorry on the Belur-Halebed road in Karnataka's Hassan district today, a senior police official said. The victims, including a block education officer, were returning from Halebed to Belur when their vehicle collided with the truck carrying rubber sheets, Hassan district Additional Superintendent of Police B S Prakash told.
He said it was not immediately known whether the victims, all men, had gone to Halebed, a famous tourist spot with historical monuments, on official work. Bureau Report