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Techie killed in ghastly accident

NIZAMABAD: A young software engineer working in a private IT company in Hyderabad was killed on the spot when the racer bike he was riding slid underneath an oncoming RTC bus bound for Armoor, at Bhiknoor on Sunday morning.

The sparks, which emanated following the friction that developed after the bike hit the bus and broke its diesel tank, caused a fire which engulfed the bus. Sensing danger the conductor, Malkanna, alerted the passengers and asked them to get down immediately. The bus was completely destroyed in the fire, causing about Rs.5 lakh loss to the RTC.

By the time fire engines from Ramayampet and Kamareddy arrived at the spot the bus was burnt completely. The software engineer Krishna Chaithanya’s bike Suzuki Hybusa reportedly costs about Rs.10 lakh.

According to reports reaching here, Sunday being a holiday the software engineer, who hails from Tirupati, left Hyderabad along with his friends on bikes for Pocharam Reserve Forest in Medak district early in the morning. After travelling on the National Highway-7 up to Ramayampet, he, instead of taking a left turn, proceeded straight to Bhiknoor.

On receiving a call from his friends while returning he met with the accident near a church in Bhiknoor mandal headquarters town. Krishna Chaitanya married a house surgeon, Rani Priyanka, just three months ago, the reports said.

His body was shifted to the Government Hospital in Kamareddy in 108. The Bhiknoor in-charge CI, Jaipal Reddy, Sub-Inspector Sreenath Reddy and the RTC depot manager G.S.R.K. Moorthy visited the spot.

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