While returning home eight people, including an 18-month-old boy who was migrant labourers returning home in Karnataka’s Raichur district, died in a road accident on the outskirts of Hyderabad late Friday night.
Because of coronavirus lockdown, 31 migrant labourers working in a construction firm in Suryapet district of Telangana were travelling in a Bolero Max to go back home, but after few moments their vehicle got hit by an open truck by a truck loaded with mangoes from the rear.
On the spot three men, a boy and a nine-year-old girl succumbed to injuries whereas four women and two men survived.
All of them were taken to Osmania General Hospital and while the remaining were shifted to a function hall in Shamshabad.
Cyberabad DCP (Traffic) SM Vijay Kumar in his statement to media states, it has been decided to not to allow any light/small/medium motor vehicles on the ORR. Reckless driving on empty roads are leading to road accidents, he said.