Seven Dead in Three Road Crashes Across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Overview

• In Sangareddy, three riders—Avuti Narasimhulu, Jinna Mallesh and Jinna Mahesh—died when their motorbike plunged into a culvert ditch on the Nizampet–Bidar 16-B highway near Narayankhed.
• Near Gollapalli in Jagtial district, a trolley vehicle hit a two-wheeler, killing Lingaiah and Lacchava of Abdullapur.
• In Vizianagaram’s Gajapatinagar, a van struck a roadside tree, killing occupants P. Vinay Kumar and Dinesh who were returning to Visakhapatnam from Rayagada.
• Police identified all victims and registered cases, and in the Sangareddy crash moved the bodies to the district government hospital for autopsy.
• The culvert site sits on a recently built 46-km highway that drew complaints in May over water stagnation and construction flaws on a Rs 300-crore project.