This Article is From May 13, 2011

Families get bodies of 4 Andhra students killed in US

Hyderabad: The bodies of four Andhra Pradesh-origin students, who were killed in a road accident in the US on May 8, were brought to Hyderabad on Thursday night, officials said.

The bodies of Ravi Srikanth and Dheeraj Gudlawar of Hyderabad, Srupen Reddy Velumula of Karimnagar district and Chitturi Sriharsha of Visakhapatnam (all in their early 20s) were brought by a flight at around 8.30 pm.

All of them were engineering graduates from Andhra Pradesh and were pursuing MS in Missouri University of Science and Technology.

A car in which the four were travelling was hit by a pick-up van on the Missouri Highway 42 near Iberia on May 8.

Another student, Bottu Murali of Kanipakam in Chittoor district, who was driving the car, was seriously injured and was admitted to the University Hospital in Columbia.

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