Bodies of Araku bus accident victims arrive

Two ambulances trudged through the traffic and mourners along the Sheikhpet road on Sunday, and turned right on to a ramshackle road. They made their way towards a large tent erected near a house where family and friends waited for the injured, and bodies of those who had lost their lives on Friday after the bus in which they were travelling fell into a valley while negotiating a hairpin bend on the way to Araku. As many as 24 persons from the family were aboard the bus. In the morning, K Naresh, one of the relatives of those aboard the bus, who was dealing with the arrangements, said that he was waiting for the bodies to arrive. A little after noon, the bodies of victims Kottam Satyanarayana (61), a retired employee of a public sector undertaking bank, and his eight-month-old grandchild Kottam Nithya were moved to their home. The body of another victim, Kottam Saritha (40), was taken to a house along one of the roads running parallel to the house of Satyanarayana. The body of the fourth victim, N Latha (45), was taken to Moghalpura in the Old City, those in the know said.