Telangana pilgrims tragedy: Toll rises to four in Karnataka accident

Four pilgrims from Narayankhed mandal died after their car collided with another vehicle near Humnabad while returning from the Dattatreya Temple in Gangapur, Karnataka. One person remains critical at a Bidar hospital. Relatives have rushed to the site.

Sangareddy: One more of the five pilgrims from Jagannathpur in Narayankhed mandal, who had travelled to the Dattatreya Temple in Gangapur, Karnataka, has succumbed to his injuries in tje road accident near Humnabad in the early hours of Wednesday, taking the death toll to four.

Three of the victims, Naveen (22), Rajappa (45) and Nagaraju (48), had died soon after the accident while Kasinath succumbed to his injuries in hospital. The fifth pilgrim, Prathap, is battling for his life in a Bidar hospital.

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The five devotees had travelled from Narayankhed to Gangapur by car to offer prayers on the occasion of Karthika Pournami and were returning home when their vehicle collided with an oncoming car.

The injured were rushed to the government hospital in Bidar, and the bodies were shifted to a local government hospital for postmortem.

Relatives and friends of the pilgrims from Narayankhed are on their way to Bidar after being alerted about the accident.