India, Nov. 3 -- In a heart-wrenching tragedy, three sisters from Tandur - Tanusha, Saipriya and Nandini - were among the 19 people killed after a private bus collided head-on with a gravel-laden tipper near Chevella in Telangana early Monday.

The three sisters had reportedly come home to attend a family wedding. The victims were travelling to Hyderabad when the fatal crash occurred.

Yellaiah Goud, who works as a driver, had personally seen off his daughters at the Tandur bus station earlier that morning, but little did he know it would be their final goodbye.

"I told my wife not to call the children for the wedding. However, she called them without my knowledge," news agency PTI quoted, their father, Goud as saying.

The grief-stricke...