At least six people, including the driver of an autorickshaw, were killed while six others sustained serious injuries, when a speeding tanker rammed into their vehicle in Telangana’s Sangareddy district on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday.
The central development
“After completing their work, they were returning in an autorickshaw. Six other persons travelling in the autorickshaw suffered serious injuries and were shifted to the government hospital at Zaheerabad for treatment. The incident happened near Satwar village in Zaheerabad mandal when the autorickshaw carrying 11 women agriculture labourers, was taking a U-turn on the Hyderabad-Mumbai national highway (NH-65) at around 8:30pm.
An official from Zaheerabad police station said the agricultural labourers from Rajagiri in Bidar district of Karnataka had come to the Budhera area of Munipally mandal in Sangareddy district to work in agricultural fields. When the autorickshaw was taking a U-turn on the highway near Satwar, a heavy tanker travelling at high speed from Mumbai towards Hyderabad crashed into it,” the police official told local reporters. “Four persons died on the spot, while two others succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment,” the police said. The condition of two of them is said to be critical, police said.
Investigation and Response
“We have registered a case of accident and taken up an investigation into the accident,” the official said.
