Five persons were killed and four injured in a road accident at Tukkuguda outer ring road, when a car hit a lorry parked on the roadside, on Friday morning at 5-6am.
According to the Pahadi Shareef police, the victims were travelling from Gondia to go to Tirupati on Dec 26 evening, when they reached ORR Tukkuguda and the car hit the parked lorry.
The deceased were identified as K Vidya (30, wife of Yogender Katre), Bharath Lataru Bhogle (58), Povren (60, wife of Haridas), Vachala Bai (55, wife of Ramchander) and Benu Bai (60, wife of Chunnilal Patle). They all died on the spot.
The four persons severely injured were Yogender, Prabha Bai, Sukhdev and car driver Manoj. They were shifted to Apollo Hospital.
They all hail from Tirota village, Gondia district, Maharashtra.
Pahadi Shareef police registered a case, and the bodies of the deceased were shifted to Osmania Hospital's mortuary for autopsy. The case is under investigation. (INN)