HYDERABAD: Three persons, including a software engineer and sub-inspector, were killed in separate road accidents in the city on Tuesday.

A software engineer died after the motorcycle he was riding rammed into a lorry that was parked in front of St. Mary's Church in Secunderabad. Twenty-eight-year-old M. Praveen Kumar was coming towards Sangeeth theatre from Clock Tower at 4.20 a.m. when he hit the lorry from behind and died on the spot. The police said Kumar, a resident of Namalgundu, could not have noticed the lorry as the driver Arun Kumar failed to switch on the parking lights. Arun was reportedly taken into custody.

Causal worker

A pedestrian was killed when a car hit him at Secretariat. Boomaiah Goud, (58), a causal worker at Home Science College in Saifabad, was crossing the road when the carhit him.

A software engineer M. Ramakrishna (25) of Yellareddyguda too fractured his left leg. The driver, Manoj, a businessman and resident of Gandhinagar, was arrested.

In yet another accident, a Sub-Inspector of Manchal police station who suffered grievous injuries after the motorcycle he was riding was knocked down by a lorry near B. N. Reddy in Vanasthalipuram on Sunday, died while undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital on Tuesday.

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