In a gory road accident, six persons were killed, and fifteen others were injured, four of them critically, when a private travel bus collided with a parked lorry, which in turn was hit by another lorry from the opposite direction, a few meters away from the Musunuru Toll Plaza towards Buchireddipalem road in Kavali mandal, 60 km from here, in the early hours of Saturday.
According to the Kavali police, a private travel bus was on its way to Hyderabad from Chennai, when the mishap occurred around 3.00 am.
The bus hit a parked lorry in the rear side at a high speed, followed by another lorry coming from the opposite direction hitting the stationary lorry on the front the side. Both the accident happened almost simultaneously. The impact left all three vehicles mangled, killing four persons on the spot, while two succumbed to injuries at the area hospital at Kavali.
