Hyderabad, May 17 -- Four women on their way to attend manual labour work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) died on the spot after a speeding tipper truck ran over them in Andhra Pradesh's Kakinada district on Saturday morning, police said.

The incident took place on the National Highway near the Kovuru bridge at around 5.30am when a group of six women were on their way to take biometric photographs before attending MGNREGA work, an official from the Indrapalem police station told reporters.

As the women were attempting to cross the highway at Kovuru, a speeding tipper truck rammed into them, killing four of them on the spot. The deceased were identified as Vasamsetti Satyavathi (60), Palika Kris...