In a ghastly accident, four persons of a family were killed when the car in which they were travelling hit a stranded lorry at Alugunur village in Thimmapur mandal near here on Tuesday morning.
Police sources said that the four members of the family from Ramagundam coal belt of Peddapalli district were returning from Hyderabad after distributing wedding invitation cards to their relatives. As the driver was sleepy, he did not notice the stationary lorry and rammed it.
Three persons died on the spot and another person succumbed to injuries in the hospital while undergoing treatment.
The deceased were identified as the bridegroom Ritesh’s parents Ravinder Rao Kamble (55) and Saritha Bai (46) and Raghunandan Rao and Meira Bai, their close relatives.
All the victims were natives of Latur from Maharashtra State and had migrated to Ramagundam for livelihood.
Ravinder Rao was running a welding shop in the industrial town.
The car that got crushed under the lorry mangled into a heap due to the impact of the accident. The airbags also opened, but could not save the inmates. The police had a tough time in retrieving the bodies and used gas cutters.
