Six seriously injured as tractor trolley overturns in Khammam

Khammam: As many as 22 farm labourers were injured, six of them seriously, when a tractor trolley carrying them overturned near Timminenipalem in Chintakani mandal in the district on Monday.

The labourers from Timminenipalem had gone to Nagulavancha to pick cotton in a farm field. While returning home in the evening, the tractor and its trailer overturned at a sharp bend near Timminenipalem.

As a result, the labourers, who were sitting on top of cotton bales in the trailer, fell down. Six of them were reported to have suffered fractures. The injured were taken to the Government Hospital in Khammam in two 108 emergency ambulance vehicles. The local police registered a case and launched a probe into the incident.