Final rites of ORR road accident victims held in Sircilla

Final rites of six persons, including three children, who died in a road accident on ORR near Shamshabad were held in Sircilla. The tragedy left the town in grief, with leaders and residents paying tributes to the victims.

Rajanna-Sircilla: Final rites of the road accident victims were held at the Manair river on the town outskirts on Saturday. Six persons, including three children of two families from Sircilla, died in a road accident that took place on ORR, near Shamshabad, on Friday.

A pall of gloom descended on the Venkampeta locality as relatives and well-wishers started visiting the house of the family after coming to know about the incident on Friday. The bodies were brought to Sircilla in the afternoon after an autopsy was conducted at Osmania General Hospital.

---

A huge number of people gathered at their residences to have a last glimpse of the victims.

Leaders of all political parties, including BRS district president Thota Agaiah, Jindam Chakrapani and Chiti Narsinga Rao, Congress leader Gangipalli Srinivas, BJP leader Gopi and others, paid tributes to the deceased and consoled the family members.

Earlier in the morning, local MLA and BRS working president KT Rama Rao paid tributes to the deceased at the Osmania hospital mortuary. Consoling the family members, he assured them of all kinds of support.

Bollam Shiva Kumar, his wife Rajeshwari alias Lasya and daughter Rishita, and Shiva Kumar’s sister’s family, including Kodam Srinivas, his wife Swetha, and sons Krishna Chandra and Madavi, met with an accident when the car they were travelling in rammed into a roadside parked lorry while returning from Yadagirigutta.

Except for Swetha, the remaining six persons died in the accident.

While Shiva Kumar’s family is staying in Sanathnagar, Hyderabad, Srinivas is residing in Sircilla.