9 killed in Andhra road accident
Sunday - June 24, 2018 9:48 am ,
Category : INDIA
Vijayawada June 24 (IANS) Nine persons were killed and four others injured when a bus hit an auto-rickshaw in Andhra Pradesh s Kurnool district early on Sunday police said.
The accident occurred near Somayajulapalle on Kurnool-Nandyal highway.
The state-owned Road Transport Corporation bus hit the auto which was carrying 13 people. While seven died on the spot two others succumbed in a nearby hospital. The injured were shifted to a government hospital in Kurnool.
According to the police three auto-rickshaws were coming from wrong direction. While two vehicles passed safely the third was hit by the bus.
A group of villagers from Penugondla and Kalapari villages had boarded the auto-rickshaws to go to Mahanandi village near Nandyal town for Naturopathy treatment. Most of the deceased were old and ill.
--IANS ms/in
The accident occurred near Somayajulapalle on Kurnool-Nandyal highway.
The state-owned Road Transport Corporation bus hit the auto which was carrying 13 people. While seven died on the spot two others succumbed in a nearby hospital. The injured were shifted to a government hospital in Kurnool.
According to the police three auto-rickshaws were coming from wrong direction. While two vehicles passed safely the third was hit by the bus.
A group of villagers from Penugondla and Kalapari villages had boarded the auto-rickshaws to go to Mahanandi village near Nandyal town for Naturopathy treatment. Most of the deceased were old and ill.
--IANS ms/in
