Four of marriage party perish in mishap in Prakasam
The Hindu
The injured were rushed to the Government Hospital at Markapur.
Tragedy struck a marriage party from Prakasam district when four of its members were killed and two others were critically injured in a ghastly road accident on the Podili-Markapur expressway at Garladinne, near Konakanamitla on August 25. Those seated on the rear-side of the speedy van in which they were travelling for the marriage to Akkacheruvu near Podili from Pedaraveedu died on the spot when the rear door opened all of a sudden, Konakanamitla police said. A pall of gloom descended at the Hospital, where the relatives of the deceased wept inconsolably as the accident occurred a couple of hours before marriage.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.