Five persons including three children died and four others sustained minor injuries when a private bus with 27 passengers on board overturned at Edururallapalli village in the Chintoor Agency in Alluri Sitharamaraju (ASR) district at around 1.30 a.m. on Monday.
The bus was going from Bhavanipatna in Odisha to Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.
According to police, three persons, identified as Dhanaveswara Dalapathi (24), Jeethu Harijan (5) and two-year-old Suvena Harijan, died on the spot.