Telangana: 30 Nursing Students Injured In Road Accident At Nalgonda District

According to the police, an overspeeding truck hit the college bus from behind at Nakrekal. After being hit by the truck, the college bus turned turtle.

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Thirty nursing students were injured when the college bus in which they were travelling was hit by a truck in the Nalgonda district of Telangana. According to an IANS report, the accident occurred at 9.30 AM on the national highway 65 near Nakrekal when the students of PGF Nursing College were going to Nalgonda from Suryapet in the college bus.

According to the police, an overspeeding truck hit the college bus from behind at Nakrekal. After being hit by the truck, the college bus turned turtle.

Thirty students were injured in the accident. Three of them received critical injuries. All the injured were taken to a government-run hospital at Nakrekal for first aid and were later shifted to a government hospital at Suryapet.

The accident occurred when the students of Bhavani College of Nursing, Suryapet, were proceeding to Nalgonda to appear in an examination. The bus was carrying a total of 40 students.

On learning about the accident, Health Minister T. Harish Rao spoke to the officials and directed that the injured be provided with the best medical treatment.

Police registered a case and took up further investigation.

Earlier, six persons were killed and twenty others sustained injuries after the tractor in which they were travelling turned turtle near Lakshmayyavuru in Puthalapattu Mandal of Chittoor district.

According to Puthalapattu police, a group of 26 people from Balijapalli in Irala Mandal were travelling in a tractor late on Wednesday to attend a wedding. Six people were killed on the spot when the overloaded tractor turned turtle near Lakshmayyavuru in Puthalapattu Mandal.

The deceased include three women and two children. The deceased were identified as Vasanthamma, 50, Surendra Reddy, 52, Reddemma, 31, Teja, 25, Vineesha, 3, and Deshika, 2. When the Puthalapattu police learned of the accident, they rushed to the scene and transported the injured to the SVRR government general hospital in Tirupati and the CMC hospital in Vellore.

(With IANS inputs)