In Tamil Nadu, seven Sabarimala pilgrims were killed and 15 injured when the van in which they were travelling, collided with a bus near Salem today.The Superintendent of Police, P R Muthuswamy said, the van from Andhra Pradesh was carrying nine Ayyappa devotees on their way to the Sabarimala hill shrine in Kerala when the mishap occurred early in the morning. All the deceased were from Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The injured have been hospitalised. The private bus was on way to Dharmapuri.