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Three students killed, five injured in accident

Staff Reporter

It was an overcrowded jeep mostly with students hanging on to it

ANANTAPUR: Three students, all girls, were killed and five others were injured seriously, when the jeep in which they were travelling was hit by a mini truck between Thippepalli and Nuthimadugu villages in Kambadur mandal of the district on Thursday.

According to the police and information reaching here, the jeep packed with about 40 passengers, mostly high school students, was on its way to Nuthimadugu from Thippepalli village.

As the jeep was jam-packed, most of the students were hanging on to it. As the jeep was halfway through the destination, the mini truck coming in the opposite direction, moving at a high speed, hit the students hanging onto the jeep.

The truck driver did not give sufficient passage way to the jeep . As a result of the collision, several students were tossed up in the air.

While three girls were killed on the spot, five others were injured seriously.

The dead students were identified as Nagamani (15), Eswaramma (14) and Varalaxmi (14). The first girl was studying in the ninth standard and the other two were eighth standard students.

RTC ignores pleas?

The intensity of the collision was so severe that the brain of one of the students killed was found on the road.

Of the five injured students, two were rushed to the General Hospital at Anantapur after they were provided first-aid at the Government Hospital at Kalyanadurg. The remaining three students were being treated at Kalyanadurg.

Routine practice

Hanging on to the jeep is a routine practice of high school students of Thippepalli and surrounding villages who are studying in the Zilla Parishad High School at Nuthimadugu.

The pleas by villagers of Thippepalli and other surrounding villages to the Andhra Pradesh State Regional Transport Corporation to ply buses have fallen on deaf ears.

The RTC's calculations on `viability' of the route have kept the wheels of progress away from the villages.

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