Nalgonda (Telangana): Five people were killed after their car overturned and collided with a pipeline on Chintapalli Mandal, Dhairyapuri Tanda Sagar Highway of Nalgonda district on Friday, the police said.
"Five youths died on the spot when their car overturned and collided with a water pipeline. It appears that the driver was drowsy. After receiving the information, we rushed to the spot, took relief measures, pulled out the bodies trapped inside the vehicle," said Srinivas Reddy, Circle Inspector, Nampally Police Station, Nalgonda District.
The bodies have been sent to the Devarakonda mortuary for post-mortem, he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, five fans of popular Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, died in a road accident while returning home after celebrating his birthday in Telangana's Warangal district in the early hours.
The car, in which they were travelling, collided head-on with a sand-laden truck at Pasaragonda Crossroad in Damera Mandal, police said.
Warangal police said the youth who celebrated Pawan Kalyan's birthday in Warangal were on their way to Mulugu to drop one of them when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a truck.
(ANI)
