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TIRUPATI:
A nine-month-old kid and a 17-year-old miss died connected the spot successful a autobus mishap adjacent Udumuvaripalli colony successful Pullampeta mandal, Tirupati district, successful the aboriginal hours of Monday (June 22, 2026). Another miss died portion being shifted to hospital, taking the toll to three. More than 15 persons were earnestly injured. The passengers were from Kadapa, Tirupati and SPSR Nellore districts.
According to the police, the mishap took spot connected the Kadapa-Renigunta roadworthy (NH-716) erstwhile an APSRTC autobus of the Kadapa depot, heading from Kadapa towards Tirupati, collided head-on with a motortruck travelling from Erraguntla towards Chennai, astatine astir 1.30 a.m. connected Monday.
Three people, including a nine-month-old kid and 2 teenage girls, died and much than 15 were injured erstwhile an APSRTC autobus and a motortruck collided head-on connected the Kadapa-Renigunta roadworthy (NH-716) adjacent Pullampeta successful Tirupati territory aboriginal connected Monday.
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The constabulary fishy the motortruck operator dozed disconnected and rammed into the autobus head-on. The close broadside of the autobus was wholly damaged.
On being informed, Kodur Rural Circle Inspector D. Srinivasulu and his unit rushed to the country and shifted the injured to the authorities infirmary successful Rajampet successful constabulary vehicles and ambulances. Later, each the injured were referred to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) successful Kadapa for precocious treatment.
The deceased were identified arsenic Puneeth Sai (nine months) and Yashwitha (17). Another passenger, K. Jaswika (16), died of aggregate injuries portion undergoing treatment.
Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav spoke to the doctors and aesculapian unit astatine RIMS astir the attraction of the injured. The officials told the Minister that 2 of the injured who were treated astatine the Rajampet infirmary had been discharged connected Monday morning, and that the others were being treated astatine RIMS.
Transport Minister Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy, expressing daze implicit the accident, directed officials to guarantee contiguous attraction for the injured. He conveyed his condolences to the families of the deceased.
He instructed officials to guarantee the champion aesculapian attraction for the injured, and enquired astir the information of the victims undergoing treatment. He directed that those with terrible injuries beryllium shifted to precocious aesculapian centres.
Wishing the injured a speedy recovery, the Minister assured the affected families of the government’s afloat support. He spoke to the officials acrophobic implicit the telephone astir roadworthy information standards and the details of the autobus and the motortruck involved, and advised them to instrumentality steps to forestall specified accidents successful future.
According to the police’s archetypal investigation, the security and licence of the APSRTC autobus had expired 3 years ago.
