13 TCS engineers among 30 dead in bus accident

The Volvo was carrying a group of 15 software engineers in their early 20s,including 9 women.

THIRTEEN software engineers of Tata Consultancy Service (TCS),Hyderabad,were among 30 people who died early today morning when the luxury bus in which they were travelling to Shirdi fell into a gorge near Osmanabad in Maharashtra. All died on the spot. The bus was carrying 46 persons.

The Volvo was carrying a group of 15 software engineers in their early 20s,including nine women,who had completed training last week. They were on their way to the Shirdi Sai Baba temple before joining work. Only two survived,with serious injuries. Seven members of a Guntur family were among the others who died.

All the TCS engineers were from Vizianagaram and Vizag. They had graduated from NVG Engineering College,Vizianagaram.

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There were heart-rending scenes at the office of the Sree Kaleswari Travels to which the bus belonged,as TCS employees and victims friends and relatives sought details. In some cases,even names were not entered in ticket records. The Vijayawada-based owner of Sree Kaleswari Travels refused to take any responsibility,including arranging a bus for the relatives to go to the accident spot or hospitals.

The bus left Hyderabad at 9 pm Friday for Shirdi. The accident occurred around 3 am when it was negotiating a small bridge about 260 km from Hyderabad.

Vice-president of TCS V Rajanna said the company had sent two teams to the accident spot and to hospitals in Osmanabad and Solapur.

Andhra Congress president Botsa Satyanarayana claimed that some injured persons had said the driver appeared to be drunk. The first driver stopped the bus at a wayside food stall where there was a liquor store. Passengers noticed that the second driver appeared to be drunk and complained when he started driving rashly… The driver also died, Satyanarayana said.

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