15 injured in accident

Tirupati, Apr 12 (UNI) Fifteen passengers were injured, four of them seriously, when a Andhra Pradesh road transport corporation bus collided with a car near Renigunta near here today.

Police said the bus was proceeding to Chennai from Tirupati while the car was coming in the opposite direction when the mishap occurred.

The bus driver averted a major mishap by applying breaks. He fell in a roadside ditch and 13 passengers in the bus were injured, two of them seriously. Two others, hailing from Red Hills in Chennai, who were travelling in the car were also injured.

The injured were admitted to Government Ruia Hospital here, police added.

UNI