Hyderabad:, Nov. 4 -- For 45-year-old Yellaiah Goud, a driver by profession from Gandhi Nagar area in Tandur town in Vikarabad district, it was a routine Monday morning. Like any other day, he dropped his three daughters - Sai Priya, Tanusha and Nandini - at the bus stop and saw them boarding the Hyderabad-bound RTC bus.

Little did Goud know then that it would be his last goodbye to his daughters. Within a couple of hours of their leaving Tandur, he heard the news about the bus meeting with a ghastly accident near Chevella.

He rushed there immediately only to find the bodies of his daughters amidst the wreckage of the bus that was crushed under the lorry carrying tonnes of gravel. "It was only on October 15, I married off my eldest daug...