Accident victims hurt in many ways

Photographers injured in Nalgonda accident say actor-politician’s family ignored them

A couple of days ago Nandamuri Harikrishna was killed in a road accident on the Nalgonda highway. Harikrishna’s vehicle hit another vehicle which was coming from the opposite direction. Five people, all of them photographers, were travelling in the vehicle and they were coming from Chennai to Hyderabad.

“I was sleeping in the vehicle. Suddenly I heard a loud sound and then I fell unconscious. They took me to the hospital in an ambulance along with Harikrishna and one of my friends, G Kapeshwar,” recalled B. Praveen about the accident.

Praveen was lucky that he was only injured near his right eye.

“Till today, the treatment and the dressing are good and they did not take any money from us,” Praveen said. “On that day,

Chandrababu Naidu told the hospital officials about our treatment. So, they did not take any

We felt bad because no one from the Harikrishna family came to us and asked about our health after the accident. We are also victims since our vehicle was hit by Harikrishna’s vehicle — B. PRAVEEN, Accident victim

money. However, we had to pay for maintenance like food and other things Praveen added.

Along with Praveen, another of his friends, Kapeshwar, was also injured. “We have been discharged today (Friday) and for further treatment we don’t know where to go. We all stay in Hyderabad and we are photographers. We mainly do wedding coverage for our earning,” said Praveen.

“We felt bad because no one from the Harikrishna family came to us and asked about our health after the accident. We are also victims since our vehicle was hit by Harikrishna’s vehicle,” Praveen said.

Apart from photography, Praveen has also worked in films. “I worked as an assistant director for two films and one of them was with director Rafi and the other one was ‘Saranam Gachami’,” he said.

When asked about the insurance for their vehicle, he said that he did not know much about it since the vehicle belonged to his friend.

A compounder at Kamineni Hospital takes a selfie with three nurses and the body of actor-politician Nandamuri Harikrishna on August 20. The picture was uploaded on social media to condole Harikrishna’s demise. This did not go down well with netizens, following which Kamineni Hospital suspended the staff. In a statement, the hospital said it was an “uncivilised act of invasion of privacy” and that legal action was being taken against them.

Praveen before and after treatment.