3 Dead, Several Injured as Ambulance Hits Pilgrims Walking to Tirumala Tirupati Temple

Ambulance Hits Pilgrims: On Monday, three people died and many sustained injuries when a group of devotees going to Tirumala Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh were hit by an ambulance-108 at Tirupati, reported News18.

The accident occurred while the devotees walked to the shrine at Tirumala from Punganur when an ambulance went out of control and struck the group at Narasingapuram in Chandragiri mandal.

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It claimed the lives of two women on the scene while three others sustained grievous injuries, the report stated. They were identified as Pedda Reddamma (40) and Lakshmamma (45). Both were residents of Champalapalli in Ramasamudram mandal of Annamayya district. Those injured were shifted to Ruia Hospital in Tirupati.

The circumstances surrounding the accident are not yet known. According to the police, the dense fog present in the area may have caused it. A case has been registered, and an investigation is under way.

Dense fog covers North India

Sunday saw the death of three women and injuring of many in yet another of a flood of four accidents involving separate buses ferrying farmer union members to Khanauri in Punjab and Tohana in Haryana through a Kisan maha panchayat at which hardly a thousand auditoriums could be seen due to the fog.

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Monday marked the start of a cold wave in many areas of north India.

The longest fog spell in Delhi this season took place on Friday and Saturday and generated several hundred flight cancellations and left more than a dozen trains diverted. “Compared to Saturday's 9-hour zero visibility spell, Palam experienced a relatively shorter duration of 3.5 hours of zero visibility on Sunday,” news agency PTI quoted an official as saying.

The mercury remained at freezing point in Srinagar. Most parts of Kashmir received a fresh snowfall on Sunday.

In Jharkhand, schools will be closed from January 7-13 as the state is expected to witness a cold wave sweeping through.

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