Chennai, July 13 -- Six persons, including a woman lost were dead while 22 others sustained injuries in a head-on collision of a private omni-bus and State Transport Corporation bus on early hours of Monday in Kottampatti, Madurai district in Tamil Nadu, police said.

Five persons who died on spot have been identified by police as J Siripushpam (56), P Anandaraj (46), G Surya (29), K Mohammed Yasin, and J Abraham (40).

According to the police, the incident happened around 4am, when the driver of the private bus which was on its way to Marthandam (in Kanniyakumari district) from Chennai lost control and hit the government bus that was coming from the opposite direction from Madurai to Tiruchirappalli.

The private bus also hit the nearby ...