Several young lives snuffed out - TeluguPeople.com News

Hyderabad: A majority of the 45 people who were charred to death in the Volvo bus accident on Wednesday were in their 20s and 30s and were heading home for Deepavali.

Four of the five deceased techies have been identified as Vittu Amarendar (31), Kusuma Veda Pathi (27), Akshay Singh (28) and Adari Ravi (27).

Adari Ravi, a software engineer, was one of the young professionals whose dreams were cut short by the tragedy. He was coming to Hyderabad to join multinational company Accenture.

Ravi, a native of Narsipatnam in Visakhapatnam district, was working in another company in Bangalore. According to Ravi's friends, he was waiting for an offer letter from another multinational company in Bangalore and since it was delayed he decided to shift to Hyderabad.

N Roohia, an employee of Info Technologies here, was another young software professional who lost her life in the mishap. She had gone to Bangalore for some work and was returning to the city.

Twenty seven-year-old K Vedapati, working as an accountant in a bank in Bangalore, was coming home to celebrate Deepavali. A native of Nizamabad district, he was married in November last year.

'He informed wife and parents that he is coming for the festival, but we received the shocking news this morning that the bus caught fire,' said one of his relatives trying to identify him in the charred remains of the victims.

Akshay Singh, a software engineer employed in Bangalore, was to come home on October 26 for his birthday but postponed the visit so as to celebrate Deepavali with his family in Hyderabad. A pall of gloom descended on his house at Chikkadpally here.

G B Sundara Raju (54) and his wife Vijaya Kumari of Guntur district were among the victims. The couple, staying with their son in Bangalore, was on its way to Hyderabad for treatment. Golf coach Yogesh Kumar is one of the five injured in the accident.

According to doctors at DRDO Apollo Hospital, his condition is critical. Mahabubnagar district collector Girija Sankar and SP D Nagendra Kumar, who were supervising the rescue operation, said, 'The identification of the deceased will be done after conducting DNA tests and collecting blood samples of the relatives.

The mortal remains will be handed over the kin of the deceased after the DNA tests.'

The names of the other deceased given by Jabbar Travels are Mohammed Asif (25), Phani Kumar (28), Shakti Kant (31), N Roohiya (28), R Dinesh (30), Jyothi (33), Prashant Gupta (23), Mohsin (20), K Venkatesh (45), Chandrashekar (41) (KPHB colony), Kiran (30), Shoaib, Azhar, Sri Krishna Nagappa (36), Azmathulla (and his wife), Gali Bal Sunder Raj, Gali Mary, Gali Vijaya Kumari (50) (all from Narsaraopet of Guntur district)), Gaurav Vikrant Rai (24), Raghuveer, Jamaluddin, Suresh Babu (Srinagar colony), Md Sardar, Priyanka, Harish, Manjunath Reddy (Kavadiguda), P N R Rajesh, Giridhar M S, Farooq Ali (Nacharam), Asuthosh, Sonu and Yuvaraj.

Earlier, relatives and family members of the deceased passengers were put through undue hardship by representatives of Jabbar Travels at the Lakdikapul office, who claimed they did not have any information about the accident or the passengers travelling in it.

They however began giving out information after contacting their Bangalore office, following the intervention of the Saifabad Police.

The representatives arranged a vehicle to take the immediate family members of the deceased to the accident spot.