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Police clueless on twin murders

Staff Reporter

Steel consignment worth Rs. 3 lakhs missing from the lorry

KHAMMAM: The police were still left clueless in their investigation into the killing of a lorry crew and theft of steel being transported in the vehicle. The incident, which sent shock waves in Bhadrachalam division, was suspected to be the handiwork of an inter-State professional gang.

The lorry transporting steel worth about Rs. 3 lakhs from Raipur to Vijayawada was last seen at the Kunta check post on the inter-State border with Chhattisgarh three days ago.

Thereafter the lorry went missing along with the load. Bodies of the lorry driver Koppula Naasimha Reddy and cleaner, Prabhu Das, were found with slit throats under a culvert near Lingala village in Bhadrachalam.

Bodies identified

The lorry operator who reached the temple town in search of the missing consignment identified the bodies. The lorry was found partly reduced to ashes near Dammapet village, about 70 kilometres from the temple town.

Two persons who had set afire to the lorry fled the scene at the sight of villagers two days ago. There was no trace of the steel consignment in the lorry. It was suspected that the gang, which lifted the steel from the vehicle, killed the driver and cleaner and tried to burn the vehicle to destroy the evidence.

Special parties were engaged to track down the killers, the police said.

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