{"id":112347,"date":"2025-12-29T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112347\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:27:10","slug":"two-telangana-girls-die-as-car-plunges-into-gorge-during-california-trip-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112347\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Telangana girls die as car plunges into gorge during California trip: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two young women from Telangana’s Mahabubabad district were killed in a road accident in California in the US. <\/p>\n

\"Meghana Meghana and Bhavana were on a trip in California with eight friends, travelling in two cars,(Representational Image\/AP) <\/p>\n

According to information available, Meghana and Bhavana were on a trip in California with eight friends, travelling in two cars, according to a report by Telangana Today.<\/p>\n

Pullakhandu Meghana 24 and Kadiyala Bhavana 24, both hailing from Garla mandal in Mahabubabad district, had gone to the United States for higher education, the report added.<\/p>\n

They had recently completed their Master\u2019s degrees and were looking for jobs.<\/p>\n

What happened?<\/p>\n

The car in which they were travelling reportedly plunged into a gorge at a curve on the Alabama Hills Road, resulting in their deaths.<\/p>\n

American police have launched an investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, the families of the two women are appealing for swift measures to bring their bodies back to India.<\/p>\n

Meghana\u2019s father, Nageshwara Rao, runs a Mee-Seva centre in Garla, while Bhavana\u2019s father is the deputy sarpanch of Mulkanoor village.<\/p>\n

Also Read | Andhra student found dead in apartment in US; family says she had severe cold, chest pain<\/a><\/p>\n

Another student’s death in Andhra<\/p>\n

Last month, a 23-year-old Indian student, identified as RajyaLakshmi (Raji) Yarlagadda, was found dead in her apartment in Texas<\/a>, United States, earlier this week.<\/p>\n

According to her family, Raji had been suffering from a severe cold and chest pain for a few days before her death. Hailing from Karmechedu village in Andhra Pradesh\u2019s Bapatla district, she had recently completed her Master\u2019s degree at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi and was actively looking for a job in the US.<\/p>\n

Her cousin, Chaitanya YVK, said Raji failed to respond when her alarm went off on the morning of November 7. \u201cShe came to the USA with hopes of building a better future for her family, who depend on their small farmland. She was preparing to start her professional career,\u201d he said, adding that he has set up a GoFundMe campaign from Denton, Texas.<\/p>\n

Medical examination procedures are currently underway to ascertain the exact cause of her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young women from Telangana’s Mahabubabad district were killed in a road accident in California in the US.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2306,60401,60402,60400],"class_list":["post-112347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-higher-education","tag-mahabubabad","tag-road-accident","tag-telangana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112347","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=112347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}