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Saturday, Apr 24, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

16 killed in two accidents

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, APRIL 23. Nine persons on their way to attend a wedding were killed when a lorry rammed into their autorickshaw near Nizampet village in Medak district on Friday afternoon. Two children who sustained fractures in the incident were rushed to a nearby hospital in Ramayampet town. Their condition is progressing.

Reports said the lorry transporting sugar bags was on its way to Karimnagar district from Medak town when it collided head on with the autorickshaw. While six auto passengers died on the spot, three others breathed their last while being shifted to the hospital.

The victims were identified as V. Ramavva (38), D. Balamallu (50), Ch. Dubbavva (20), Anantavva (30), Eluri Ramaiah (50), Eluri Lachavva (53), K. Balavva (30), auto driver Kolla Yadagiri (28), and another body is yet to be identified. The injured were Swamy (7) and Babu (6).

Our Nizamabad Staff Reporter writes from Armoor:

Seven persons including three women and two children were killed when the car in which they were travelling collided head on with a speeding lorry near Chepur under Armoor police station, about 35 km from Nizamabad district headquarters on Friday.

Tragedy struck two families from Argul village in Jakranpalli mandal who were on their way to a temple at the Sriramsagar project in Pochampad village, when the Maruti car driven by a Government school teacher, Jagan Reddy, rammed into a Tamil Nadu-bound lorry near Chepur. Seven persons died on the spot while two children sustained grievous injuries. The accident occurred when the Maruti car driver tried to overtake a Nagpur-bound lorry and in the process collided head on with another lorry. The car apparently brushed past one lorry, swerved to its right and rammed into the lorry coming from the opposite direction. Due to the impact of the collision, the car was dragged to a distance of 25 metres before it came to a halt.

Seven out of nine passengers in the car died on the spot. The dead were identified as Jagan Reddy, 35, his brother Srinivas Reddy, 30, a medical representative in Nizamabad town, their wives, Laxmi Srinivas and Laxmi, both 30, Rohini, a close relative and two children. Akhilesh, (nine months) and Chinni, (3). Only Meghana and Nikhil, children of Srinivas Reddy, survived the tragedy. Nikhil was shifted to Hyderabad as his condition turned critical. Meghana is recuperating at a private hospital in Armoor town.

The bodies were badly mutilated and the police and passersby had a harrowing time in retrieving the bodies. There were no survivors in Jagan Reddy's family as his wife and two children died. The Highway patrol van of the Armoor sub-division and the Armoor Station House Officer, Chatur Singh Rathod, rushed to the spot and pulled out the mangled piece of vehicle.

Two seriously injured children - Meghana and Nikhil Reddy - were pulled out of the wreckage. Nikhil Reddy, was rushed to the District headquarters hospital in

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