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In a devastating incident, four Indians were killed in a road accident on August 30th on Highway 75 in Anna, Texas. The victims died in an SUV by a speeding truck, which left the vehicle burnt into ashes.
The four deceased were identified as Aryan Raghunath Orampati, his friend Farooq Shaik and Lokesh Palacharla, all three are from Hyderabad and one more Darshini Vasudevan is from Tamil Nadu. The accident took place on Friday afternoon at around 3:30 PM. The impact was severe, and the car caught on fire. The deceased were trapped inside the car and unable to come out.
As per Texas media, four individuals were in a carpool connected via app and were heading to Bentonville. Aryan and Farooq were returning from a trip to Dallas, and the residents of Bentonville. Lokesh Palacharla was travelling to Bentonville to meet his wife and Darshini Vasudevan was on her way to visit her uncle.
Darshini Vasudevan was a Master’s degree graduate from the University of Texas at Arlington.
The identification of the victims also became difficult because they were burnt completely. Authorities depending on the carpooling app details identified the victims.
After the incident, vehicles on highway 75 were standing still and the traffic was heavily slowed down. The speeding truck collided with the vehicle, leading to this fatal accident.
Several Indians, who went to the USA for their education or for jobs, died in vehicular road accidents. Recently, three members of an Indian-origin family were killed in a car crash in Texas, Houston. Not only this, On May 14th three Indian students in Alpharetta, Georgia died in a road accident in a major car crash. The Indian diaspora has been left in shock, they are planning to send the bodies to India. But sadly the bodies were completely burnt.