Eleven people travelling in a Volvo bus died when the vehicle crashed into a four-foot-high concrete railing and fell into a canal in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district on Tuesday morning. The bus crossed the booth at 5.29 am and 10 minutes later fell into the canal. Diwakar Travels, to which the bus belonged, is owned by Anantapur TDP MP J C Diwakar Reddy and his brother J C Prabhakar Reddy, who is TDP MLA from Tadipatri in Anantapur district. This is the second accident involving buses of Diwakar Travels. When asked about the accident, Diwakar Reddy said: “We do not know what exactly happened because the driver was killed.

Source: Indian Express February 28, 2017 22:30 UTC