Mahbubnagar: 4 badly hurt in road accident

Mahbubnagar: In two separate incidents, as many as four persons suffered severe injuries and five others escaped safely on Wednesday.

According to sources, four persons were severely injured when a speeding car from Hyderabad heading towards Srisailam hit the road median and overturned at Lattipur stage in Uppunutala mandal of Nagarkurnool district.

The injured persons were shifted to Achampet government hospital for treatment.

In the second incident, five persons escaped safely after their car caught fire on national highway 44 near Rainbow Hotel in Moosapet mandal in Mahbubnagar district.

The alert car driver who noticed the fire immediately stopped the car and saved the passengers by disembarking them from the car.

All the five are said to be residents of Pebbair mandal headquarters and they were all heading to Hyderabad when the incident took place.

The police visited the spot and pressed in fire tenders to douse the fire.