CHENNAI: (BUREAU) Three people, including two college students, died in two separate accidents involving government buses at Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram on Wednesday night.

In one incident near Singaperumalkoil, two college students were killed and another person was critically injured after a government bus rammed into a motorcycle at the Mahindra City traffic signal on Wednesday evening.

The victims were waiting at the signal behind an MTC bus when a government bus travelling from Villupuram towards Madhavaram crashed into their bike, trapping them between the two buses.

In the impact, two students, Lokesh (20) of Madurantakam and his friend Sahith Saran (20), students of a private university at Potheri, died on the spot. A third student sustained severe injuries and is undergoing treatment at a private hospital.

In another incident in Kancheepuram, a woman was killed after a government bus collided with a car on the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway near Vellai Gate in Kancheepuram.

The police said that the car driver stopped after it hit a tanker lorry, which swerved across the road, after which a government bus, which was trailing the car, slammed into the vehicle. The car got crushed between the bus and the lorry. While the man driving the car, Praveen, survived with injuries, his wife, Pinky, suffered grievous injuries. She was rescued and rushed to the Kancheepuram district government headquarters hospital, where she was declared dead.