Hyderabad: Six persons, including two
children, were killed and two others injured when an
auto-rickshaw in which they were travelling collided with an
escort vehicle of a Congress MLA in Andhra Pradesh's Nalgonda
district today, police said.
The incident occurred when the escort jeep of Chief Whip
Bhatti Vikramarka's convoy, while trying to overtake another
vehicle dashed against the auto-rickshaw near Dandumalkapuram
area in Nalgonda district, they said.
The convoy with the Congress leader was en route to
Hyderabad from Khammam district, while the auto-rickshaw was
going to Narketpally in Nalgonda from Hyderabad.
While the auto-driver and a couple killed on the spot,
two children and a woman who suffered critical injuries died
at a hospital in Hyderabad, police said.
The two minors died were the children of the couple, they
said, adding four persons in the escort jeep also sustained
minor injuries.
PTI
First Published: Monday, February 08, 2010, 23:45