Four Spaniards among 5 killed in chittoor accident

Five persons were killed and nine injured when a speeding container truck collided with a minibus at Yetalavanka of Punganur mandal in Chittoor district. 
The mangled remains of the minibus, in which a group of Spanish tourists were travelling, at Yetalavanka of Punganur mandal in Chittoor district on Saturday | afp
The mangled remains of the minibus, in which a group of Spanish tourists were travelling, at Yetalavanka of Punganur mandal in Chittoor district on Saturday | afp

TIRUPATI: Five persons were killed and nine injured when a speeding container truck collided with a minibus at Yetalavanka of Punganur mandal in Chittoor district. The dead have been identified as Sayeed Naushad (42), bus driver, and Spaniards Josefa Moran Molinillo (65), Francisco Pedrosa Gijón (31), Vincente Perez Moreno (50) and Maria Nives Lopez Navarro (62) who were on their way to Puducherry from Anantapur. Around 10 am the speeding truck en route to Madanapalle rammed into the minibus ferrying a group of Spanish tourists. 


The force of the impact was such that half of the van was mangled and victims crushed. The highway patrol arrived and shifted the injured to Punganur Government Hospital. Six of the injured were then shifted to Baptist Hospital in Bengaluru. The Spanish group were doing voluntary service at Rural Development Trust (RDT) in Bathalapalli of Anantapur district since August 1 and had left to Puducherry for a South Indian tour.On being alertedt, RDT chairman M Thippeswamy and co-founder and executive director Anne Ferrer rushed to the spot. 


The bodies of the Spaniards were handed over to RDT after post mortem. “It is very unfortunate. Every year, around 2,000 people from Spain visit RDT, but never has such an accident occurred. We are doing everything to contact their kin and send bodies home,” Thippeswamy said. 
CM N Chandrababu Naidu condoled the deaths and directed officials concerned to coordinate with the Spanish Embassy and render all help.

six die as jeep rams bus at Adivaram
Kozhikode:
Six persons, including three children, died in an accident involving a private bus, a jeep and a car on the Kozhikode-Mysore national highway at Adivaram near Thamarassery on Saturday. All the deceased were passengers of the jeep. Five of them, including the children, belonged to a single family. Nearly 10 persons were travelling in the jeep at the time of the incident. Of the 12 injured, three were children and their condition is said to be critical. While eight of the critically injured have been admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital, the other four have been admitted to the Thamarassery Taluk Hospital. The toll is expected to rise as the condition of the critically injured is worseThe mangled remains of the minibus, in which a group of Spanish tourists were travelling, at Yetalavanka of Punganur mandal in Chittoor district on Saturday | afp

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