Seven persons were killed and five injured in a ghastly road accident when the driver apparently lost control on the vehicle after hitting a road divider near Addakal and crashed into an Innova, on the Hyderabad-Bangalore national highway early Tuesday.
The five passengers in the Innova were returning home from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. The victims were identified as Jadav Madhav (52), Venkat Sambaji (42), Pothedar Sankar (45), Rajeswar Sankar (43), Pothedar Balaji (35), and Kottorvar Srinivas (42) from Maharashtra and Chandi (50) from Kerala.
According to police, seven pilgrims were returning to Nanded after a visit to Tirumala when the vehicle they were travelling in, collided with an Innova coming in the opposite direction.
Police had to use crowbars to open the doors of the mangled vehicles and extricate the bodies from them.