Andhra Pradesh traffic accidents resulted in nine fatalities
On Friday, two separate traffic incidents in the Andhra Pradesh districts of Annamayya and Chittoor resulted in the deaths of nine individuals.
In the K.V. Palle mandal of the Annamayya district, a Toofan car crashed with a truck, killing five devotees—three of them women—and injuring eleven others.
The incident happened while a group of devotees from the Karnataka region of Belgavi were heading home after their ‘darshan’ at Tirumala temple in Tirupati, according to the police.
The dead were named as Hanumanthu, the driver, Mananda, 35, Ambika, 14, Shobha, 36, and Hanumanth, 38. Eleven more people suffered injuries in the collision. They were given hospital admission.
In another mishap in the Chittoor area, four people—including a woman—were murdered. In the Thavanampalle mandal, close to Tellagundalapalli, an ambulance collided with a milk truck that was parked on the road.
Three other passengers in the ambulance as well as the patient, who was being transported from Bengaluru to RIMS Hospital in Tirupati, were slain. The dead were Odisha locals.
Umsesh Chandra Sahu, a patient, was 46 when the incident occurred. Rashmita Sahu, 45, Vijaya Naik, 56, and Trilokchand Naik, 63, were the other fatalities.
