A fatal road accident claimed the lives of four people and left one seriously injured in Karimnagar district of the state.
The accident took place in Manakondur mandal of the district, when a car carrying the victims hit a tree.
According to the information revealed by the police, the family members of Koppula Srinivasa Rao, a resident of Jyothi Nagar of Karimnagar, went to Kalloor of Khammam district on Thursday. They were returning to Karimnagar on the same day. However, when the car they were travelling in reached Manakondur in the early hours of Friday, it hit a tree resulting in the accident.
Four passengers in the car, Balaji, Sriraju, Jalandhar and Srinivasa Rao, died on the spot. Another passenger by name Sudhakar Rao sustained serious injuries.
The Manakondur CI Krishna Reddy reached the spot and supervised the removing of the dead bodies from the car. The seriously injured Sudhakar was rushed to a hospital in Karimnagar for treatment.