Thirteen migrant workers from Andhra Pradesh were killed, seven of them on the spot, and another was critically injured when the SUV in which they were travelling to their workplaces in Bengaluru after Dasara vacation rammed a stationary tanker on the outskirts of Chikballapur in Karnataka on October 26 morning.
While 11 of the deceased were from various villages of Gorantla, Penukonda and Obula Deva Cheruvu mandals in Sri Sathya Sai district, two were couple from Odisha who had migrated to Gorantla a couple of years ago but of late been residing in Bengaluru.
The deceased were identified as H. Narasimhulu (45); A. Venkata Narayana (51); Venkata Subbamma (48); Mangala Murthy (43); Boya Venkatadri (27); Boya Lakshmi (23); N. Aruna (38); N. Ritwik Sai (7); Pawan (20); Golla Shantamma (37); Golla Rajavardhan (15), and the couple Narayana and Subbamma.