{"id":112298,"date":"2025-12-29T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112298\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:27:12","slug":"two-indian-women-killed-in-california-car-crash-families-say-they-were-looking-for-jobs-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112298\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Indian women killed in California car crash; families say they were looking for jobs in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/two-indian-women-meghana-left-and-bhavana-were-killed-in-a-car-crash-in-california.jpg\" alt=\"Two Indian women killed in California car crash; families say they were looking for jobs in US\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Pullakhandam Meghana Rani and Kadiyala Bhavana, two Indian women who were friends and were looking for jobs in the US, died in a car accident in California. They were returning from a short trip with friends. According to reports, they were from India&#8217;s Telangana and came to the US three years ago for a master&#8217;s. It was weekend trip and there were other friends too with Meghana and Bhavana. The car they were traveling plunged into a gorge near Alabama on Sunday. Both the women were killed on spot while others sustained serious injuries. Meghana\u2019s father, Nageshwara Rao, runs a Mee-Seva centre, while Bhavana\u2019s father is the deputy sarpanch of Mulkanoor village, a report said. A fundraiser has been set up for bringing Meghana&#8217;s body to India. &#8220;Meghana Rani(Chikki) moved here from [Garla Khammam in India, Telangana] with dreams and a heart full of love. To those who knew her, she was a kind, vibrant soul who always put others first. Her sudden departure has left a void in our lives that can never be filled.She was an Indian national, unmarried, and belonged to a lower-middle-class family from Garla village, Telangana, India,&#8221; it said.&#8221;We humbly request your support during this extremely difficult time. Any contribution, no matter how small, will help us give my Sister a dignified farewell and will mean more to us than words can express,&#8221; the fundraiser said.This is the second such tragic incident for the Indian community in the US this week, after Telangana&#8217;s Yashwanth Kumar Goshika, a 33-year-old resident of Dallas, passed away in his sleep. According to reports, he was msuffering from a health condition related to sleep apnea. A separate fundraiser has been put up seeking help for bringing Yashwanth&#8217;s body back to India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pullakhandam Meghana Rani and Kadiyala Bhavana, two Indian women who were friends and were looking for jobs in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,60381,9,8,60378,60377,60380,60379,53933,60382],"class_list":["post-112298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-car-crash-news","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-car-accident-in-california","tag-indian-women-killed-in-california-car-crash","tag-kadiyala-bhavana","tag-meghana-rani","tag-nri-news","tag-telangana-women-killed-in-california-car-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}