Fiftysix students, 35 of them from a nursing school in Kakinada and 21 from a Junior College in Yanam, came on an excursion to the city along with a few staff members. The bus was coming down the Kailasagiri hill when the driver realised that the brakes had failed. The alert driver instead of taking a left turn which could have resulted in the bus hurtling down the hillslope, chose to turn right and hit the hill.
Tyagaraya Namah Sivaya, Assistant Director of the Adi Dravida Welfare Department, sustained a head injury and the bus driver N. Bulli Veeranna, 68, was also severely injured. Durga Prasad, 11, brother of one of the students, and two students Rajyalakshmi and Udaya, were also severely injured in the accident. They were shifted to the King George Hospital for treatment.
The other injured students were discharged after first aid.
Mayor P. Janardhana Rao, Police Commissioner N. Sambasiva Rao and other officials went to the spot and supervised relief operations.
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