Minister’s son killed in road accident

Nishit Narayana, son of Municipal Administration Minister in Andhra Pradesh who ran some of the state’s top educational institutions, has died in a road accident. His Mercedes SUV was allegedly speeding, crashed last night in Hyderabad.

Nishit, 22, was a director of the Narayana group of educational institutions, which ran colleges and coaching classes and His father is P Narayana, a Minister in the government of Chandrababu Naidu and is on his way back to India from a foreign trip.

Police sources say that Nishit was driving the SUV and was accompanied by a friend when the Mercedes rammed into a pillar that is part of an under-construction track of the local metro. Both died on the spot.