HYDERABAD: A speeding lorry ran over a traffic home guard on duty at Rajendrangar while four members of a marriage party died after the lorry they were travelling in rammed into another truck at Chevella in Ranga Reddy district on Thursday.

The home guard M. Raghavulu, 24, was regulating vehicles at Aramghar crossroads around 5.30 p.m. when the lorry laden with sand coming from Shamshabad into the city hit him. "The home guard was asking the lorry to stop but its driver tried to speed away and in the process knocked down the home guard," the Rajendranagar police said.

Instant death

Death was instant for Raghavulu. He was from Shankarapuram village of Shamshabad mandal in Ranga Reddy district. Raghavulu got married a couple of years ago and since then was working as a home guard. He has a four-month-old son. A patrolling party of the Cyberabad police chased the speeding lorry and caught it near Upparpalli.

Meanwhile, the accident at Mirjaguda in Chevella police station area occurred in the evening. Some 42 members of a marriage party belonging to Ramannaguda village were going in a lorry to the house of the bridegroom in Aluru to attend the reception party. The lorry driver lost control while avoiding an oncoming lorry and rammed into a tree on the roadside. While N. Jangaiah, 65, and Sravani, 2, died on the spot, two girls Balamani, 15, and Sumalata, 14, succumbed to injuries at Osmania General Hospital.

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