Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

3 killed, 14 injured in three accidents

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: Three persons were killed and 14 others injured in three separate accidents in the district on Sunday. The injured were admitted to the Government hospitals at Anantapur, Penukonda and Kadiri.

According to the police, Tulasamma, 40, was killed on the spot and nine others injured when the jeep in which they were travelling collided head-on with a lorry coming in the opposite direction on the outskirts of Anantapur. The jeep was on way to Anantapur from Dharmavaram and the lorry was going towards Kadiri.

In another accident, a car in which four carpenters from Rajasthan settled in Bangalore

collided head-on with a lorry, killing two of them on the spot. The dead were identified as Arjun Chowdhary, 35, and Kuru Ram, 30. They were returning from Hyderabad after completing contract work.

In the third accident at Jogannagaripeta village in Kadiri mandal, a bus carrying 30 schoolchildren from Chennai overturned while negotiating a curve injuring three children.

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