Kurnool bus fire tragedy: The ill-fated bike had a pillion rider, who survived, say police

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Forensic unit   and constabulary  astatine  the mishap  tract  for probe  aft  a backstage  sleeper autobus  bound for Bengaluru from Hyderabad caught occurrence  astatine  Chinna Tekuru colony   successful  Kalluru mandal of Kurnool territory  connected  Friday morning, October 24, 2025, sidesplitting  astatine  slightest  19 people.

Forensic unit and constabulary astatine the mishap tract for probe aft a backstage sleeper autobus bound for Bengaluru from Hyderabad caught occurrence astatine Chinna Tekuru colony successful Kalluru mandal of Kurnool territory connected Friday morning, October 24, 2025, sidesplitting astatine slightest 19 people. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal

Investigators person recovered that the motorcycle progressive successful the Kurnool autobus calamity had a pillion rider, who has survived. The surviver besides confirmed that their motorcycle skid disconnected overmuch earlier the backstage sleeper autobus ran implicit it, and the rider succumbed to wounds caused by skidding.

At slightest 19 radical aboard the Bengaluru-bound backstage sleeper autobus operated by V. Kaveri Travels, were killed successful the aboriginal hours of Friday connected National Highway no. 44 astatine Chinnatekur adjacent Kurnool.

Initial constabulary reports suggested the antheral who rode the motocycle was unsocial and died successful the accident. However, much details person emerged.

Forensic experts and scores of constabulary personnel, who examined the mishap spot, inferred that the autobus rammed the motorcycle lying connected the roadworthy pursuing which occurrence emanated.

The peculiar teams besides recovered that 2 youngsters — Nani alias Eriswamy and his person Shivshankar — were travelling connected the way from Kurnool metropolis towards Dhone erstwhile the tragic autobus mishap occurred. While Shivashanakr was riding the bike, Nani sat pillion. 

They started from Nani’s location astatine Laxmipuram aft 2.20 a.m. They stopped by a petrol bunk and headed for Dhone. Nearly 200 meters earlier the mishap spot, the bike skidded connected the road, throwing some the riders off. 

“Shivshankar, who fell connected left, died instantly with his caput banging against the road. Nani got hurled implicit the two-feet-high alloy railing on the roadworthy and landed connected bushes with insignificant injuries,” an serviceman associated with the mishap probe explained connected information of anonymity.

Nani walked upto his person lone to realise the second was dead. “He pulled the assemblage of Shivshankar upto the railing. He tried to resistance the motorcycle but it was excessively dense for him”, the serviceman explained.

Meanwhile, a speeding autobus ran implicit the motorcycle partly. “Minutes later, the V. Kaveri autobus ran implicit the bike, dragging it for astir 200 meters,” according to the officer. 

Nani, who was an eye-witness to this, admitted to constabulary that helium saw the autobus catching occurrence and heard the screams of passengers from a distance. He told the interrogators that helium stayed astatine the mishap spot till the constabulary and occurrence work unit arrived astatine the mishap spot and aboriginal went to Tuggali successful a tractor that was passing by and stayed backmost there. 

The suspicion of Nani’s imaginable transportation to the lawsuit arose aft the constabulary recovered that helium came to Shivshankar’s location successful Prajanagar of Kurnool municipality connected Thursday evening. They started sticking up the different leads and picked up him from Tuggali erstwhile helium revealed the facts. 

Published - October 25, 2025 01:53 p.m. IST

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