Four Killed, Four Injured After Truck Rams Into Van Near Hyderabad

Two people travelling in the van died on the spot. Two others succumbed to injuries while being shifted to a hospital.

Four people were killed and four others were injured after a truck rammed into their van at Turkayamjal near Hyderabad in the early hours of Tuesday. According to an IANS report, a cement-laden truck rammed into the DCM van near Turkayamjal bridge in the Rangareddy district.
 
According to police, two people travelling in the van died on the spot. Two others succumbed to injuries while being shifted to a hospital, an official at Aditabla police station said, as quoted by PTI.

The incident happened at around 2 am.

The police shifted the bodies to Osmania General Hospital for an autopsy. A case has been registered at the Adibatla police station. Police are conducting further investigation.

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On Sunday, a software engineer was killed and two of his friends were injured in a road accident in Hyderabad. The accident occurred on the PVNR Expressway, IANS reported.

MHNVS Charan (22), working for a leading IT firm at Pocharam, was killed in the accident on Sunday night. He was driving the vehicle, with his two friends riding pillion.

Hailing from a village in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Charan was employed at a leading IT firm in Pocharam, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. He and his friends were staying in a township nearby. On the weekend, nine friends on three motorcycles came to the city.

According to the police, the trio went to see the new Secretariat and the recently installed statue of Ambedkar. After spending some time at Tank Bund, they decided to go to Cable Bridge. Since they were not familiar with the city, they opened Google Maps on their phones to reach the destination. Charan headed towards Mehdipatnam and took the PVNR Expressway without apparently realising that two-wheelers were prohibited on this stretch.

After covering two to three kilometres on the expressway, the trio realised that they were heading in the wrong direction. Charan turned his bike to get down a ramp at Pillar Number 82. However, a car hit the bike.

Charan sustained critical injuries and was shifted to a private hospital, where he succumbed on Sunday. His two other friends sustained minor injuries.