A fire on the Vemuri Kaveri Travels bus in Kurnool destroyed 234 smartphones worth nearly Rs 46 lakh sent by Hyderabad businessman Manganath. Battery explosions, including mobile and AC batteries, intensified the blaze. Eyewitnesses reported loud explosive sounds during the fire

Hyderabad: A total of 234 expensive smartphones were gutted in a fire on the Vemuri Kaveri Travels bus, which caught fire in Kurnool on Friday.

As per reports, Manganath, a businessman from Hyderabad, had sent the mobile phone boxes worth nearly Rs 46 lakh as a parcel in the bus. These phones were supposed to reach Flipkart’s Bengaluru warehouse, from where they would have been distributed to customers.

Upon learning about the accident, Manganath rushed from Hyderabad to the accident site and was deeply distr

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