Two persons were killed and another five persons were injured when an autorickshaw and a motorcycle collided at Vemulapadu in Yadiki mandal of Anantapur district on Sunday afternoon.
At the Vemulapadu junction, three motorcycle-borne youth proceeding from Iduguru Gangamma in Tadipatri mandal to Pamidi, in a bid to overtake another vehicle, hit the autorickshaw coming from the opposite direction, which led to the death of motorcycle-borne Lakshmireddy (38) and Ranganadha Reddy (35).
While one person, identified as Mallikarjuna Reddy, was grievously injured, four others were shifted to a hospital for immediate treatment.
