Pvt Travels bus caught fire in Guntur district-Five people were burnt alive in the fire
Amaravati: On the 13th, the lives of five people who came to Sontoor to vote in the state and were returning to Hyderabad in Pravet Travels bus were burnt. Death in the form of a tipper. Five people including the driver of the bus and the tipper were burnt alive after the tipper hit the travel bus. 20 more people were injured in this incident.. The accident took place between Chilukaluripet mandal of Palnadu district and the odarevu and piduguralla.
According to the police, Aravinda Travels bus left from Chinaganjam in Bapatla district via Parchur and Chilakaluripet to Hyderabad with 40 passengers on Tuesday night. Chinaganjam, Gonasapudi, Nilayapalem people are more in the bus.. All of them voted in the election held on Monday and returned to Hyderabad. At around 1.30 pm, when the bus reached Ivurivaripalem between Annambatlavari Palem and Pasumarru villages of Chilakaluripet Mandal, the national highway road was under construction, and a speeding tipper collided with a gravel load on the opposite side of the service road that had been constructed for vehicular traffic.Within moments, the tipper caught fire and immediately caught fire in to bus. About 20 people caught fire before the passengers who were sleeping soundly got down. Five people including the driver of the bus and the tipper were burnt alive in the bus. Among them, Kashi Brahmeshwar Rao (62), his wife Lakshmi (55) and their granddaughter Srisai (9) were burnt in the fire. Passengers said that many of the passengers in the bus jumped down from the emergency door and saved their lives.
The locals immediately informed the police and 108. The police immediately reached the spot and brought 108 vehicles from Chilakaluripet, Yaddanapudi, Chirala and Yadlapadu to the accident site. At the same time, firemen extinguished the fire. The injured were shifted to Gutur Government Hospital for treatment. The dead bodies were sent for postmortem.