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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\nKharagpur: Twin tragedies struck the Rao family of Kharagpur over the last couple of days after three persons rushing to Visakhapatnam for the last rites of one of those killed in a crane collapse at Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL) on Saturday morning died in a road accident on National Highway 16 in Srikakulam district of coastal Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. One of the women killed has left behind two-and-a-half-year-old twins at her home in Kharagpur.
Bhaskar Rao, a technician, was among the 11 killed in the crane collapse at HSL. On receiving news of the accident, his in-laws, residents of the New Settlement Area in Kharagpur’s Ward 18, hired an SUV and started for Visakhapatnam around midnight on Sunday to attend Rao\u2019s last rites. The SUV apparently rammed into the back of a truck at Jalantrakota at high speed a few hours later.
Among those killed were Rao\u2019s mother-in-law K Nagmani Rao (50), his younger brother-in-law\u2019s wife L Lavanya Rao (22) and the driver of the SUV R Dwarkanath (25).
Those injured include Rao\u2019s younger brother-in-law, his wife and younger brother-in-law (Lavanya\u2019s husband). Lavanya\u2019s twins are in Kharagpur with relatives.
According to Pooja Naidu, former councillor of Kharagpur, arrangements have been made to get the bodies back home. \u201cI spoke to Lavanya around midnight as they were leaving Kharagpur. Everything was fine. We were shattered on receiving news of the accident thereafter,\u201d said Chandrakala, a relative of Lavanya.
The injured are receiving treatment at the government hospital in Srikakulam, where doctors said that their condition was critical. \u201cMy son was an experienced driver. He would regularly travel to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on work. I don\u2019t know how this could have happened,\u201d driver Dwarkanath\u2019s mother, R Latha, said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n