Kurnool: Nine persons were killed when the auto rickshaw in which they were traveling in collided head-on with an APSRTC bus in Kurnool district.
In the incident, 13 people belonging to Penugondla and Kalapari villages of Kodumuru block were travelling to go to Mahanandi to seek herbal medicines for their eye-problem, when the auto rickshaw in which they were travelling collided with the bus coming from opposite direction near Somayajulapalle village under Orvakallu block.
Orvakallu police said the auto rickshaw was going on the wrong side of Kurnool-Nandyal main road. The auto driver desperately tried to avoid colliding with the bus, but the bus coming at a high speed rammed into the three-wheeler. Such was the impact of the collision that the auto was flung into the air and fell on the side of the road. Seven of the passengers died on the spot while two others died in the Kurnool government hospital. Five others, including the auto driver, were critically injured and undergoing treatment. (NSS)
