Two of the four occupants of the car fled the scene.
CHENNAI: Five women cattle herders resting in the shade by the roadside near Thiruporur in Tamil Nadu were mowed down by a speeding car driven by a college student out for a joyride with friends on Wednesday.
Police said the car veered off the road near the Payanoor-Pandithamedu junction on way from Thiruporur to Mamallapuram, after the driver lost control at high speed, and crashed into the women throwing two of them several feet away. All five were killed on the spot. Two of the four occupants of the car fled the scene.
Driver Joshua and Ahmed, both BTech students in a private university, were caught by locals and thrashed before police arrived on the scene and arrested them. Police are looking for the other two youth.