BANGALORE: Two students were killed and three injured when a brand new car by which they were travelling rammed a lamppost at Ramanagara on Bangalore-Mysore Highway in the early hours of Saturday.

The dead have been identified as Amudamani (24), an MBA student in Singapore and son of a senior Indian Revenue Service officer working in West Bengal, and Tanvi Rao (17), a Class XII student of Bishop Cotton Girls School and a resident of Indiranagar here.

Three Class XII students of the same institution, Lakshmi (17), Archana (18) and Meghana (18), who have been seriously injured have been admitted to hospital. Lakshmi is being treated at an intensive care unit in a private hospital.

The police said that around 3.15 a.m., Amudamani, who was at the wheel, rammed the unregistered silver Skoda against a lamppost on the road median near the PWD Circle in Ramanagara.

While Tanvi was killed on the spot, Amudamani died on the way to a hospital in Bangalore.

Amudamani was taking his four friends to an outlet of a popular coffee chain near Maddur on the Bangalore-Mysore Highway after partying. He had come to Bangalore to attend the silver jubilee of his parents' marriage.

While his father Mani Vachagan works in the Income Tax Department in Kolkata, his mother and siblings live at Lal Bahadur Shastrinagar in HAL area here. The injured girls are residents of Indiranagar and neighbouring areas, the police said.

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