Six persons, including two women from Chhattisgarh State, were killed on the spot and another critically injured in a ghastly road accident involving a jeep and an RTC bus near Bandirevu village on Bhadrachalam-Chintur highway on Wednesday evening.
According to police sources, the gruesome accident took place when a Mahindra Max Jeep carrying passengers from Bhadrachalam to Konta in Chhattisgarh collided head on with the RTC bus bound for Vijayawada between Bandirevu and Katukapalli villages on the highway.
Six occupants of the jeep including the ill-fated vehicle driver died instantaneously at the mishap site. One more passenger suffered grievous head injuries in the collision. The local police identified four of the deceased as Mahadevi, Kareena, Santosh, and Lakshman. The identity of two other victims could not be established immediately.
The jeep was coming in the wrong direction when it rammed the RTC bus near Bandirevu, said N Prakash Reddy, Additional Superintendent of Police, Bhadrachalam.
All the six deceased hailed from Kerlapal of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh State, he told The Hindu . The seriously injured passenger, the lone survivor in the mishap, was admitted to the Bhadrachalam area hospital.
