KAKINADA: Four people including two drivers and two cleaners were charred to death in a lorry collision on Thursday night. The incident took place on the Prathipadu National Highway near Kakinada, when a lorry coming from the Rajahmundry side towards Visakhapatnam, crashed into a stationary lorry and burst into flames.

While three of them were burnt to death in the driver’s cabin, another injured person died on the way to the hospital. Fire tenders were called immediately to douse the flames.

The drivers' cabins of both trucks were completely gutted in the fire. Cranes were brought to the accident site to remove the damaged vehicles and clear the road to avoid traffic jams.

Preliminary reports suggest that the driver of a container truck might have fallen asleep at the wheel and hit the divider and came onto the other side of the road and collided with a sand-laden truck coming on the highway. With the impact of the collision, the engines burst into flames, and the two drivers and cleaners were burnt inside the cabins.   Prathipadu Police have registered a case and are investigating the matter. What was even more alarming was the incident took place next to a petrol pump and the visuals of the collision were captured on the CCTV cameras in the petrol station.

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Further details are awaited.