Two killed as bus rams into auto

MALAPPURAM: Two persons, including an infant, were killed and another person wounded seriously when the auto in which they were travelling was hit by a bus near Poonkalappadimana at Vallikkappatta in Malappuram. Police said the dead were identified as Lakshmi (32) and a 3-month-old girl child, adding her mother Babita, who sustained serious injuries, was admitted to Kozhikode Medical College. The infant was being taken to a hospital in Perinthalmanna in the district when the tragedy struck, they added.