From the archive record
In a major road mishap, as many as 16 labourers were killed and several others injured when a lorry carrying fly ash rammed into a tree at high speed and overturned trapping the labourers under it at Murari village of Gandepalli mandal at East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh in the early hours. According to police, the lorry was on its way from Vijayawada to Visakhapatnam when about 35 labourers who were working in fields at Chinthalapudi mandal boarded it to reach their home villages of Prathipadu and others in East Godavari at Eluru Bypass road. As the lorry was nearing the Murari village, the lorry driver lost control of the vehicle and hit the tree on the road margin. Under the impact, the lorry overturned and fell in the fields. Both the driver and cleaner of the lorry escaped soon after t