Hyderabad, Nov 26th : Police said that four people were killed and one was injured in a road accident in Telangana’s Karimnagar District on Friday. The accident occurred when the car carrying the vitims hit a tree at Manakondur.
The car’s four occupants died instantly, but the fifth was seriously injured and was admitted to a Karimnagar hospital.
After attending ‘pedda-karma’, a relative had recently died, the victims belonged to the same family and were returning home to Karimnagar in Karimnagar.
They all left Khammam on Thursday morning to attend the ritual for Karimnagar, which began on Thursday night.
Inspector Krishna Reddy stated that the accident took place at 3.30 a.m.
He claimed that preliminary investigations have shown that the driver didzed at the wheel, which led to him losing control of the vehicle.
The victims were identified as Koppula Srinivas Rao and Koppula Balaji, Sriraju, and driver Jalandhar.Srinivas Rao was also injured.
The bodies were pulled from the car by police and taken to Karimnagar government hospital for autopsy.
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