HYDERABAD: A 25-year-old student from Nalgonda, Telangana pursuing his master’s course in the US died in a car accident on May 7.
Kranthi Kiran Reddy Sareddy
graduated from the University of Central Missouri. He was to have completed his master’s degree in August this year.
Kranthi’s family hails from Annaram village of Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district in Telangana. His parents Srinivas Reddy and Aruna have urged the state government to help the family get the body back home. They were informed about the death of their son in the accident reportedly by the university authorities.
On May 7, 2022 around 7.30pm central time, Kranthi met with a car accident and was declared dead by the paramedics at the accident spot.
There were three other individuals who are involved in the car accident. All of them are being treated.
After he joined for his master’s degree in August 2021, Kranthi Kiran was trying to get internship to work in a computer engineering field which was his area of study.
According to Chandrakanth Sareddy from Cleveland, Ohio, US who started a gofundme page to raise funds to meet the expenses to send the body back to India from the US, Kranthi Kiran was traveling with his roommates to visit a friend and on his way back home, met with an accident.
“He was seated on the front passenger side. His car was hit by a truck and he was declared dead on spot,” he said.
Out of the target of 1 lakh US dollars which friends are trying to raise for the family, more than 58,000 has been contributed so far.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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