Three killed, two injured after earthmover crashes onto car in Nizamabad

After the earthmover driver reportedly lost control and crashed into the car killing three persons traveling in it on the spot.

Nizamabad: Three persons were killed and two others were injured when an excavator that was being transported on a tractor-trolley fell on to their car in Bhimgal in Nizamabad district on Wednesday morning. Those killed were identified as Mupparapu Rajeshwar, his daughter-in-law Jyothi and daughter Rama.

According to Bhimgal SI Rajbharat Reddy, the excavator had slipped off the trolley and fell onto the car which was passing by near a sub-station in Bhimgal town. The family was returning from the Badabbingal Ellamma temple at Mortad mandal of the district. People who witnessed the accident informed the police who reached the spot and pulled out Rajeshwar’s wife Lakshmi and son-in-law Chukkala Rajeshwar, who were trapped in the car and shifted them to the Nizamabad Government hospital.

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It is said that a tyre of the tractor-trolley burst, causing the excavator that was on it to slide off and fall on to the car. While Rajeshwar was killed on the spot, the two women died on the way to hospital.