Telangana: Five died, including minor, in separate accidents in Khammam

Five persons died, including a minor, one injured in separate accidents in Khammam district on Thursday

Khammam: Five persons died, including a minor, one injured in separate accidents in Khammam district on Thursday. In a road accident at Konijerla three persons of a family died. The incident occurred when a car in which the deceased were travelling was crushed in between two lorries. The car rammed into a lorry, which came to a halt suddenly because of a stationary lorry on the road and then the car was hit by another lorry from behind.

Those travelling in the car, Parupalli Rajesh (39), his wife Sujatha (35) and their son Ashruth (10) were killed on the spot while another son of the couple, Abhijith was injured grievously. The injured boy was shifted to District General Hospital for treatment. Rajesh of Vippalamadaka village in Wyra mandal works in a pharmacy company in Hyderabad and was going to his native village when the incident occurred. A pall of gloom descended on the village following the incident.

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In another accident at VM Banjar in Penuballi mandal, two drivers were killed on the spot when two lorries, which they were driving collided with each other during mid-night hours on Wednesday. Police and emergency rescue teams had to struggle for two hours to retrieve the dead bodies of the drivers from the crushed cabins of the vehicles. The drivers were identified as Dharmender Kumar (29) of Bihar and Santhosh Jairam Madavi (43) of Maharashtra. The first one was going to Hyderabad from Assam and the second one from Hyderabad to Vizag, police said.