Four workers were killed after a State Road Transportation Corporation bus mowed them down on the NH 163 (Hyderabad-Warangal) near Alair bypass in Yadadri-Bhuavanagiri district on Sunday.
Ankarla Varalakshmi and Oorella Shyam breathed their last at the accident site and Ankarla Kavitha died while being shifted in an emergency vehicle. Another victim Oorella Lavanya, wife of Shyam, who was in critical condition and rushed to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad battled for life for almost four hours before breathing her last.
All the victims hailed from Raigiri village in the district and were under contract with an agency that was conducting maintenance and repair works on the highway. One of the victims Shyam, an auto-rickshaw driver, used to pick and drop the workers daily.
