About 10-12 killed, 20 injured in bus-truck collision in Markapuram

District Collector P Raja Babu said that 25 of the 41 passengers on the bus were injured, The Hindu reported. They were admitted to a government hospital in Markapuram.

Ten of them suffered severe injuries and five were in critical condition, he added.

The accident occurred at a turn at about 6 am when the private bus collided with the tipper truck loaded with gravel coming from Kanigiri, the newspaper quoted unidentified police officers as saying.

The bus was travelling from Nirmal in Telangana to Vinjamuru in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district.