HYDERABAD: Three agriculture workers, all women, were killed and 13 others were injured in a road accident in Telangana’s Mancherial district on Monday.
The accident occurred when a truck hit a Bolero pick-up truck carrying agriculture workers from Maharashtra. The Bolero vehicle rammed into a tree after it was hit by the truck from behind on the national highway near Indaram X Road in Jaipur mandal.
According to police, a group of 23 farm workers from Chandrapur in neighbouring Maharashtra were coming to Karimnagar for sowing of paddy seeds.
A woman died on the spot, while two others succumbed while undergoing treatment at a hospital. The injured have been admitted to a government hospital in Mancherial.