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Among those who boarded the ill-fated autobus that caught occurrence successful Kurnool territory of Andhra Pradesh connected Friday greeting and near 20 dormant were a parent and lad — Philomena Baby J. and Kishore J., residents of Bengaluru.
Philomena had travelled to Hyderabad to observe Deepavali with her girl and the extended family.
The family, hailing from Hyderabad but surviving successful Bengaluru for respective years, had decided to walk the festival successful Hyderabad this twelvemonth aft a agelong gap.
Friend successful shock
Before returning, Kishore had asked his adjacent friend, Subhash, to publication their tickets. Subhash, who had known Kishore for implicit 21 years, said helium was successful daze ever since helium heard astir the fire.
“I was astatine a nonaccomplishment for words erstwhile I heard astir the fire. I kept trying to scope them, but could not get through. I yet learnt that they were among the radical who died successful the tragic incident.”
Mr. Subhash told The Hindu that Kishore precocious discontinue his occupation successful Bengaluru to prosecute his passionateness for martial arts. “He was a trained martial arts teacher and utilized to thatch Kung Fu,” helium added.
Team sent
The Karnataka authorities has sent a squad of officials from the Transport Department to Kurnool. The officials person been instructed to place victims from Karnataka and widen indispensable assistance to their families.
Speaking to this reporter, Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy said, “I person directed Transport officials from Bagepalli successful Karnataka to question to Kurnool to coordinate with section authorities, stitchery accusation astir the victims, and assistance their families. All indispensable arrangements person been made.”
On the autobus progressive successful the incident, the Minister said, “As per accusation received from officials, this peculiar autobus had each the indispensable permits to ply betwixt Bengaluru and Hyderabad. All India licence vehicles are allowed to run connected immoderate way crossed the state and are not restricted to fixed routes.”
