Andhra Pradesh: 13 persons killed, 10 injured in truck-bus collision
On Saturday, in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district, a mini truck carrying a marriage party collided head-on with a bus in which minimum of 15 people were killed and 18 injured, police said.
The bride’s grandmother was among the seven women who died on the spot as also three siblings, leaving the families of the bride and bridegroom both related to each other shell-shocked. The tragedy occurred when a private travel bus collided with a mini lorry carrying 40 members of a marriage party.
According to them, the bus caught fire after the collision and fire tenders rushed to the spot to douse the flames. The driver and his assistant fled the scene.
The mini truck was carrying 40 passengers. There was no passenger in the bus. The officer said the injured are being shifted to Kandukur, Ongole and Nellore districts for treatment.
The collision impact had both the vehicles jacknifeD upwards and then overturn and later roll into a near by stream.