Three people and toodler killed and 17 others injured when a tractor carrying labourers plunged into a roadside ditch near Kattikere in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
Police told Deccan Chronicle that 21 labourers from Maharashtra were travelling in two trailers
attached to a tractor after completing sugarcane harvesting work.
The accident occurred around 1.45 am when the tractor driver suddenly applied the brakes near Kattikere, on the outskirts of Jamkhandi, causing both trailers to detach and topple into the roadside ditch.