Five pilgrims were killed and two others were severely injured when the vehicle they were travelling in hit a median and overturned at Chagalamarri in the Kurnool district in the early hours of Sunday.
According to police, the van, which was carrying seven retired employees, residing at Kukatpally, had gone on a pilgrimage to Arunachalam and the Golden temple in Tamil Nadu, and to Kanipakam and Tirumala in the Chittoor district, hit a divider and tipped on their journey back to Hyderabad, causing five of them to die.
While Subba Raju (52), Ramakrishna Raju (55), Ranga Raju (58) and Kanaka Raju (72) and died on the spot, another person named Krishnam Raju succumbed to injuries in Kurnool General Hospital.
Two injured persons - Narasimha Murthy Raju and Rammohan Raju - who were initially admitted to a hospital at Chagalamarri - were rushed to the Kurnool hospital on Sunday evening.