Hyderabad: Eight Army personnel were injured after a military vehicle carrying 14 personnel rammed into a roadside tree near Allawada in Chevella mandal of Rangareddy district on Friday.
According to police, the personnel were travelling from the Golconda Army Camp to Shabad as part of a driver training exercise. A trainee was driving the vehicle hit the road median near Allawada. The impact caused the driver to lose control, following which the vehicle went off the road and crashed into a roadside tree.
Army personnel immediately launched rescue operations and shifted the injured to the Army Hospital in Golconda for treatment.
According to a Senior Police official the vehicle had left the Golconda Army Camp at around 6.30 am. He added that no complaint had been received from the Army so far and no case had been registered in connection with the accident.
(With Inputs from Media Reports)