Three persons were killed and five others, including an infant, were injured when the car in which they were travelling hit a vehicle and overturned in Railway Kodur mandal of Kadapa district in the early hours of Friday.
The occupants of the vehicle from Kankal in Vikarabad district of Telangana were on their way to Tirupati when the accident occurred near Raghavarajupuram village around 2 a.m. The other vehicle involved in the accident fled. According to the police, the conductor of a bus reportedly observed a container dragging the damaged car for a distance, and were going through CCTV camera footage near Balapalle for details.
The deceased were identified as driver Balaraju, Sujatha and her son, Prasanth, while Vani, Srinivasulu, Priyanka, Ramadevi and an infant, who sustained injuries, were rushed to SVR Ruia Government General Hospital in Tirupati.
