Diesel tanker runs over sleeping cook

Nagarkurnool: A diesel tanker rammed on to the pavements and killed a cook who was fast asleep on the pavements of a petrol bunk in Jangareddypally village of Amrabad mandal in Nagarkurnool district on Monday. 

According to eye witness, Venkatesh, the diesel tank truck driver because of his negligent driving drove the tanker bearing registration number AP23Y7689 on to the pavement.

Unnoticing that a cook named Sirisel Samling Helker (36), a resident of Mandrup village in Sholapur district in Maharashtra, was sleeping, the driver drove the lorry on to the sleeping person killing him on the spot. The incident happened at the Srinivasa filling station in Amrabad mandal.  The police have registered a case of negligent driving and shifted the body to the Achampet area hospital for the post mortem.