India, Oct. 25 -- A 44-year-old government school teacher and two migrant workers were among seven people killed after a pickup truck laden with diesel caught fire and exploded on Saturday while transferring fuel to another vehicle in Andhra Pradesh's Alluri Sitarama Raju district, police said.

The deceased were identified as Jagarapu Sunitha (44), a teacher from Visakhapatnam who worked at mandal parishad school at Maidrebu village, Manyala Manikantha (23), Adiboyina Guru Pavan (27), Pangi Chiranjeevi, Tinku Chandra Vamsi Singh, a JCB operator from Bihar, Nazeer from Assam and Mandala Narayana Rao.

The blast took place in Ananthagiri mandal's Peechumamidi village at around 8.30 am. District SP Amit Bardar said the truck was carrying fu...