Four persons died on the spot at Jwalapuram on Saturday night when the car in which they were travelling collided with a cement-laden lorry in Bhattalapalli Mandal of the district on the Kadiri-Anantapur Highway.
According to Dharmavaram Rural police, five family members were travelling from Tanakallu to Anantapur to attend a marriage when the car tyre burst near Jwalapuram and resulted in a collision with a lorry.
The deceased have been identified as Reddy Basha, Babu, Reshma and Ammaji (all in their 30s), while the fifth passenger Taslima, a five-year-old girl is safe. The bodies of the deceased were taken to Dharmavaram Government Hospital for post-mortem.
