Telangana: Three dead, 15 injured in a road accident at Miryalaguda

HYDERABAD: Three persons died and 15 others sustained injuries when a speeding private bus rammed into a parked truck on the state highway at Miryalaguda on Tuesday. Police registered a case against the bus driver who suffered a leg fracture in the mishap.
The deceased were, M Mallikarjun, 40, K Nageshwar Rao, 44, of Prakasham district and S Vijay Rao, 42, of Guntur. According to police, Mallikarjun and Nageshwar Rao were construction workers and Vijay Rao was a farmer.
"There were 45 passengers in the private travel bus coming from Kondapi in Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad. Shortly after crossing Edulaguda X Roads in Miryalaguda town at 2.45 am, the bus rammed into a truck parked on the road side from behind at a high speed. The front portion of the bus was completely damaged due to the crash," Miryalaguda I Town CI Ch S Nagaraju said.
Most of the passengers in the bus were construction workers returning to the city from Parakasam and Guntur districts. While Mallikarjun and Nageshwar Rao died on the spot, Vijay Rao succumbed to injuries in a nearby hospital. "It took us some time to pull out the injured passengers from the bus and shift them to hospital. Of the 15 injured passengers, six persons suffered fractures. All the injured are out of danger and they were shifted to various hospitals in Miryalaguda and Hyderabad," the inspector said.
During the investigation, police found out that the truck was parked on the road side due to a tyre burst. "The truck driver turned on the parking indicators and while he was about to replace the tyre, the speeding bus coming from behind crashed into it. It appears like the bus driver, K Venkateshwarlu might have dozed off," the inspector said. A case was registered under sections 304-a, 337 and 338 of the IPC.