Atleast 17 elderly people were today injured, two of them seriously in a bus-lorry collision in Medak district of Telangana, police said.
As per Patancheru Police, the mishap took place when a bus belonging to Help Age India Foundation carrying about 40 passengers was hit by a lorry coming from the opposite direction on the outskirts of Isnapur village under Patancheru Police Station limits in Medak.
All the injured were shifted to government hospitals at Patancheru, Sangareddy and Hyderabad.
Help Age India Foundation is engaged in providing medical assistance to elderly people in and around Patancheru and as a part of their activity they had arranged a excursion trip to Nagarjunasagar today when the accident happened.
