Synopsis : A TGSRTC bus collided head-on with a truck laden with crushed stones, claiming 20 lives, on the Tandur-Hyderabad highway. The bus was packed with office-goers, students, labourers, and families.

As the first light of dawn broke on Monday, 3 November, the usually busy Tandur–Hyderabad highway in the outskirts of Telangana capital Hyderabad turned into a scene of devastation — a corridor of twisted metal, shattered glass, and lost lives.

What began as an ordinary morning journey ended in catastrophe when a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) bus collided head-on with a truck laden with crushed stones, claiming 20 lives in an instant.

Amid the wreckage, one truth echoed louder than the sirens — speed kills. It didn’t just destroy vehicles; it ended the lives of

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