Chevella accident: Govt fails to ensure respect to dead, shift bodies in towing vehicles

Telangana government faced severe criticism after visuals showed bodies of Chevella bus crash victims being transported in towing vehicles and tractors instead of ambulances. Netizens, opposition leaders called the act inhumane

Hyderabad: The manner in which the official machinery shifted the bodies of the victims of Chevella bus tragedy is drawing severe flak, with many questioning how the government could dump them in the back of towing vehicles and open tractors and transport them like trash.

Videos of the bodies being heaped into the rear portion of a towing vehicle from the accident site are being shared, with netizens asking how could the government be so inhuman. Why couldn’t the bodies be shifted in ambulances was what many asked.

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While BRS spokesperson Manne Krishank politely requested the State government to use ambulances, there were many others who slammed Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar and the State government, asking how arranging an ambulance was such a difficult task for this government. Some, in posts on X, tagged the National Human Rights Commission, requesting its attention to the inhumane manner in which the bodies were treated.

While an X user, @AlwaysTelangana, called this ‘an absolute failure of administration and humanity’, others pointed out the manner in which even the bodies were shifted onto the towing vehicles. There were no stretchers used, with some being pulled up with bare hands while some were loaded onto the vehicle in sheets.

The Ministers concerned, district administration and police should have called in more ambulances from Hyderabad or any nearby place if needed and ensured dignity in death to the victims, they pointed out.