14 killed as minibus crashes into lorry
The Hindu
Fourteen persons, including eight women and an infant, were killed and four others injured when a minibus flipped over the median and crashed into a lorry on the other side of National Highway 44 in Veldurthi mandal, 35 km from Kurnool, in the early hours of Sunday.
Two of the injured are said to be critical and shifted to the Governemnt Hospital at Kurnool. Twelve of the deceased belonged to a family residing at NTR Colony in Madanapalle. The four injured children are reportedly the only survivors in the family.
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