According to police, the man driving the four-wheeler apparently lost control resulting in the accident on a bridge over Nagarjuna Sagar Left Bank canal near Gauravaram village on Vijayawada-Hyderabad national highway.
A car in which the devotees were travelling collided head-on with a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus on the Warangal-Medaram road.
According to the police, the accident took place on Friday, when a truck collided head-on with another in attempt to save an SUV which was trying to overtake it. The SUV too overturned after hitting the rear of one of the two trucks.
According to police, the three-wheeler plunged into the canal after the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.
"The accident happened when the vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident," a police officer said.
Siddharth Kapoor, a resident of Sushant Lok Phase-1, said his niece Niharika Singh (21) was a law student at a reputed college in Gurugram. On Tuesday night, she had gone to meet her friend Vanshika (21), a resident of Chandan Nagar, in her Honda City car. When they reached Sikanderpur Marble Market, they met with an accident, the police said citing Kapoor.
The victims were returning to Gurugram city from Sadhrana village after attending a marriage.
