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Three persons, including a college student, were killed and five others injured, when the car in which were travelling rammed into a parked lorry near Sulur in the outskirts in the wee hours of today.

The inmates were returning to the city from Tirupur around midnight yesterday, to celebrate New Year, when the mishap occured at Thennapalayam, police said.

Under the impact of the accident, a private engineering college student and a worker in a canteen and knitwear unit, died on the spot, they said.

The died have been identified as Rahul (19), Prasad (24) and Thalib (19).

One of the injured is undergoing treatment in the Government Hospital, while four others are admitted to a private hospital in the city.

Further investigations are on, they said