Car rams into truck, 2 killed
Two farmers who were returning home after receiving a person at the RGI Airport were killed and two others were severely injured when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a parked trailer truck on Rajiv Rahadari Highway in Siddipet district on Sunday.
Police said the mishap occurred as the lorry driver had parked the vehicle without indicators. The bodies of the deceased got stuck in the iron rods jutting out from the lorry. The dead are Mahankali Anil, 28, and Bathini Ramesh, 26. Santosh, 26, and B. Shekar, 23, were injured seriously in the accident.
The victims belonged to Chokkaraopally village in Karimnagar district and had gone to receive one Shekhar who was returning from the Gulf, police said.
Ramesh’s younger brother Shekhar who was working in the Gulf was coming home on vacation. Ramesh, his friend Anil and Santosh started in a car on Saturday night to receive him at the RGI Airport, They picked up Shekar and started back with Santosh at the wheel. When the vehicle reached the outskirts of Kondapaka village, Santosh suddenly saw a trailer truck parked on the road, but he could not control the vehicle and rammed into the truck. The truck was carrying iron rods which stuck out of the truck’s body.
Anil and Ramesh died on the spot as the rods pierced their bodies while the other two sustained severe injuries.
“The accident occurred due to the negligence of the truck driver who had parked his vehicle on the road without taking safety precautions,” Kuknoorpalli SI G. Santosh Kumar said.
Police registered a case of accidental death against truck driver Mallesh who is absconding. Customs officers of the Air Intelligence Unit nabbed a man who was carrying 1,233 grams of 24K gold worth `36,86,60 on Saturday night. The passenger, Gosala Syam Babu, had arrived from Dubai on Indigo airlines and is claiming to have been duped by some people in Dubai and made to carry the gold.
The arrest was made based on profiling of passengers by customs officials at the RGI Airport. The gold bars were concealed by replacing the copper wiring inside a voltage converter.
The operator from Dubai had sent the gold bars concealed in a voltage converter, through a passenger who was deceived by an agent who promised employment in Dubai.
The voltage converter, and some personal articles were kept in a carton and it was handed over to the man without revealing anything. The passenger was requested to deliver the carton at Hyderabad to a person who would be coming to receive him outside the international arrivals terminal, officials at the Air Intelligence Unit said.