Three killed in road accident in Jagtial

While two persons died on the spot, the third breathed his last while being shifted to hospital. Construction masons Venu, Srikanth and Venkatesh died in the accident.

Jagtial: Three persons died in a road accident on the Jagtial-Nizamabad main road near Venkatapur of Korutla mandal on Sunday morning.

The incident occurred when a bike on which the victims were traveling to Metpalli rammed a parked lorry on the outskirts of Venkatapur at around 6.30 am.

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While two persons Pasupuleti Srikanth (23) and Venkatesh died on the spot, Badikela Venugopal (30) breathed his last while being shifted to Jagtial hospital. While Venugopal and Srikanth were residents of Muthyampet of Mallial mandal, Venkatesh was from Alur of Raikal mandal.

A construction mason, Venugopal along with his assistants Srikanth and Venkatesh were going to Metpalli to for work when they met with the accident.

Police handed over the bodies of Venugopal and Srikanth to family members after postmortem, and with the help of municipal authorities, performed the final rites of Venkatesh in Korutla as nobody came forward to collect his body.