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26 killed in road accidents across State

Staff Reporter

ADILABAD: Sixteen persons, including four children and five women, were killed and eight others were injured seriously in a ghastly road accident on Sunday involving a private passenger jeep and a chilli-laden lorry. The accident, which was attributed to the bad condition of the road, occurred near Bandam village on NH 7 in Neredigonda mandal that is known as an accident-prone spot.

Only 10 of the 16 were identified until evening. Six of the severely injured were shifted to Hyderabad, while the remaining two were sent to hospitals in Nizamabad.

Wrong side

According to eyewitness reports at the accident site, the lorry that was proceeding towards Neredigonda was speeding on the right side apparently because of the road being in bad shape on the left. The jeep with 24 passengers was coming from the opposite direction.

The jeep driver perhaps got confused on finding the lorry coming in the wrong lane and he too followed suit. However, the lorry driver who evidently wanted to correct his course hit the jeep that was now coming from the wrong side.

The dead persons who were identified are Dawa Shekhar, 35, his wife Chandra, 29, son and daughter Srikanth 12 and Shakuntala 14 and niece Nalla Vijaya, 16, all from Mupkal. Rajeshwar, a second year degree student from Adilabad, Shyamala, 30, from Nirmal, G. Vijaya, 22 from Adegam in Ichoda mandal, Pratap Singh, 30, from Venkatapur in Boath mandal and M. Narayana, 48, of Talamadugu mandal were the others who were killed.

Six killed, 45 hurt

Vizag Staff Reporter writes: Six persons were killed and 45 injured when a van fell into a valley near Darakonda in the agency area of the district on Sunday afternoon. More than 50 Girijans from Orissa were returning from a marriage at Satyavaram in Chintapalli mandal by the van. When the driver lost control of the vehicle on the ghat road, it fell into the valley about 800 metres below.

The six dead were identified as Vantula Bhallu, 48 and his son Dasaradhi, 12, Gopinath, 48, and his daughter Sita, 14, Korra Puri, 40, and Poosa, 35.

The accident occurred around 3.30 p.m., and luckily a police party headed by sub-inspector Y.Murali Rao and 20 of his men on duty nearby immediately went to the rescue of the victims and passed on information to authorities. While 15 persons were being brought to Visakhapatnam, about 170 km from the accident site, 12 and 18 were admitted to hospitals at Narsipatnam and Chintapalli, respectively, police said.

4 killed in Krishna dt.

Vijayawada Staff Reporter writes: Four persons, including an aged couple, were killed in a road accident in Ramannagudem village near Nuzvid on Sunday. The accident occurred when a speeding lorry hit the autorickshaw, in which they were going to Vattigudipadu village from Nuzvid.

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