Drunk Driver Goes On Rampage in Shamirpet, 11-Year-Old Critical 

Shamirpet: In a ghastly road accident on the Rajiv Highway, five persons and a 11-year-old boy were injured in Shamirpet. The incident took place on Monday evening when a car which was heading from Shamirpet to Secunderabad rammed into a road side panipuri stall, leaving it in a state of mess.

According to onlookers, the driver of the car was in an inebriated state following because of which he lost control of the wheel. The injured were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital where they are undergoing treatment. The police has registered a case and probing the matter.

In another case in Guntur, an Iraqi student died in a road accident on Sunday while the case came to light the following day.

Saad Abdul Bari Zabeth, a Ph.D. student of Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur district, was killed when he was knocked down by a bus near Guntur town. According to police, he was going to the town on a motorbike. His two friends were accompanying him on another bike.

A bus of the state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corp (APSRTC) hit his two-wheeler from the rear at Gaddipadu on the outskirts of Guntur. He died on the spot. Saad, who was doing Ph.D. in law, had submitted his thesis and was expecting the degree in another month. According to his friends, he had shared this news with his parents in Iraq over telephone a few hours before the tragedy.

The Iraqi student had done his post-graduate from Pune before enrolling in Acharya Nagarjuna University.