Overview

• A private sleeper coach struck devotees walking to the Huligamma/Huligemma temple near Kukanapalli on NH-50 early Tuesday.
• Reports vary on casualties, with at least three dead and several injured and one outlet putting the toll at four.
• Those killed include Annapurna, 40, Prakash, 25, and Sharanappa, 19, residents of Tallihal/Tarihala in Ron/Rona taluk of Gadag district.
• Injured pilgrims were taken to Koppal District Hospital as SP Dr. Ram Arasiddi inspected the scene and Munirabad police registered a case with an investigation underway.
• Police said the bus was traveling from Sindhogi/Sindagi to Bengaluru and the group had set out two days earlier, about three hours from the temple, as coverage also recalls a fatal September procession crash in Hassan.