Seven of Hyderabad family killed in road accident near Chevella

Seven family members, including a six-year-old child, all from Hyderabad, were killed and four others injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a bore-well drilling truck on the Hyderabad-Bijapur road near Chevella in Ranga Reddy district on Wednesday morning.

The mishap occurred on the Kandawada-Malkapur stretch on the outskirts of Chevella when the victims were heading in a Toyota Innova from Tadbun in Bahadurpura to Gurmathkal in Karnataka, police said. The victims were Asif Khan (50), Sania (18), Nazia Begum (45), Arshiya (28), Nazia Banu (36), Arshiya Banu (6) and Khalid (43). The injured were Kareena Begum, Ayyum Khan, Nissar Baig and Anwar Khan.

According to the Chevella police, eleven persons, including two children, all members of the same family, had started off in the car to Karnataka in the early hours. At Kandawada village, the driver of the car, who is



suspected to have been driving quite fast, lost control of the vehicle at a curve leading to the mishap. “At the curve, the driver in an attempt to overtake another vehicle did not notice the oncoming bore-well drilling truck. The Innova collided with the truck killing seven on the spot. Four others, including a child, were injured,” the police said.

Other motorists rushed to their rescue. The injured were shifted to a nearby private hospital and later to Hyderabad with those suffering minor injuries being treated at the Chevella government hospital. Their condition was said to be stable. The Chevella police booked a case and shifted the bodies to hospital for autopsy.

The incident led to a traffic snarl stretching for more than half a km on the busy road. The police, using a crane, removed the mangled vehicle from the road and cleared traffic.