Synopsis: Three sisters—an MBA student and two degree students, all studying in Hyderabad—were returning to the city after a weeks-long stay at their home in Tandur, Telangana, when their TSRTC bus collided with a speeding tipper lorry. The trio were among the 21 people killed in the accident in the early hours of Monday. Just two weeks earlier, their home had been filled with laughter, music and wedding festivities; now, it has fallen into unbearable silence.

When Yellaiah Goud dropped his three daughters at the bus station early on Monday, 3 November, he had no idea he was seeing them alive for the last time.

A few hours after he waved them goodbye, he stood outside the mortuary, his world shattered and silent.

The sisters—Sai Priya, a final-year degree student; Thanusha, an MBA st

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