Seven persons of a family, including a nine-month-old baby boy, died and one person sustained severe injuries after the car they were travelling in hit the rear of a lorry on the national highway at Anantapalli village under the Nallajarla police limits in East Godavari district on Monday morning.
They were returning to Rajamahendravaram after attending a wedding in Hyderabad. The lorry was parked on a flyover on the national highway.
According to the Kovvur police, all the deceased belonged to a family from Prakash Nagar in Rajamahendravaram.