Three persons— a middle-aged man, his daughter and granddaughter—died on the spot and two others sustained injuries after a lorry hit their car on Khammam-Thallada highway at Stage Pinapaka in Khammam district’s Wyra mandal on Friday afternoon.
Police said the speeding lorry hit the car head on and dragged it for a few metres on the busy highway. The deceased were identified as Azmeera Rambabu (50), his 26-year-old daughter and his one-year-old granddaughter. They belonged to a tribal hamlet in Kallur mandal and were returning home from the temple town of Basar in Nirmal district, sources said.
The injured were admitted to a hospital in Khammam and the condition of one of them was serious.
