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VISAKHAPATNAM: The police on Saturday registered a case against Gurrampalli Srisailam, the driver of the ill-fated bus that plunged from the ghat road into a valley 80 feet below at Araku in Visakhapatnam district on Friday night, even as the post mortem examination of the bodies of the four killed was completed and bodies sent to Hyderabad in special ambulances.
An official panel was formed to study the mishaps on the ghat road. The Vizag rural police said they will arrest the bus driver after his discharge from the hospital.
A forensic medicine team conducted the post mortem at Andhra Medical College (AMC). The deceased were identified as Kottam Saritha (38), Kottam Satyanarayana (50), Kottam Nitya (eight months) and Kottam Latha (45). The police registered a case against the driver under Sections 304 A 338 337 of IPC.
The Dinesh Travels bus from Sheik Pet in Hyderabad had come to Araku on Friday morning and was returning late at night.
VISAKHAPATNAM: At least eight people were killed and 15 others, including six children, injured when a bus plunged into a valley on the Araku Ghat Road in Andhra Pradesh s Visakhapatnam on Friday.
All the deceased are from Hyderabad. Police say that so far four bodies have been retrieved from the valley.
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According to sources, a travel bus with 30 people on board was going to Araku when the driver lost control and the vehicle plunged into the valley at the fifth turning point at Dumuku in Ananthagiri mandal on the Araku Ghat Road.
According to investigators, the reason for the Andhra-Odisha border becoming a ganja producing hub is mainly due to the terrain and Maoist problem in the region.
HYDERABAD: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths said that ganja from Andhra Pradesh is being supplied to peddlers across the country, apart from also being smuggled to Sri Lanka.
In the third week of January, NCB sleuths arrested four peddlers at Ghatkesar while they were trying to peddle 212kg ganja sourced from agency areas in Andhra Pradesh and erstwhile Warangal district to Pune and Mumbai.
During the interrogation of the kingpin Ganesh Gavane, who was also wanted in 955kg ganja seizure case of August 2020 the NCB team found out that the ganja from agency areas in Andhra Pradesh is being supplied to peddlers in India and Sri Lanka.
Though the symptoms surfaced in the village from January 13 it had come into light after the festival. (File photo)
ELURU: At least 20 people fell sick in Komirepalli village in Denduluru mandal of West Godavari district allegedly suffering from the mysterious disease that has created terror in Eluru town in December 2020.
Out of 20 patients, eight were admitted in Eluru government hospital and the condition of the eight is said to be out of danger.
It is recalled that 648 people admitted in hospitals with the same mysterious disease of the same symptoms in Eluru and its surrounding areas in December. Almost one week the district headquarter Eluru was gripped with terror due to this disease before national level medical and other agencies visited and collected samples and also conducted tests.