A horrific multi-vehicle crash in Texas, USA claimed the lives of four Indian-origins whose identities were revealed after DNA examination of their charred bodies.

According to reports, the victims were carpooling an SUV to Bentonville in Arkansas on August 30.

A speeding truck reportedly collided with the SUV carrying the victims, causing the vehicle to burst into flames. Tragically, all the passengers were immediately burned to death. 

The four deceased include Aryan Raghunath Orampathi and his friend Farooq Shaik from Hyderabad, Lokesh Palacharla from Andhra Pradesh, and Darshini Vasudevan from Tamil Nadu.

All of them were connected through a carpooling app and were headed to Arkansas, for separate reasons.

Aryan and his friend Farooq were returning to Dallas after visiting a relative, Lokesh was on his way to meet his wife, and Darshini, who had completed her master’s degree from Texas University, was going to visit her uncle.

Aryan’s parents had arrived in the US only two months earlier to attend their son’s graduation ceremony. He was a resident of Hyderabad, where he had completed his engineering studies before moving to the US for further education. His father is the owner of Max Agri Genetics Pvt Ltd in Hyderabad. Aryan had planned to stay in the US for a few more months before the tragic crash.

Darshini, the woman victim in the crash, has been in the USA for the last 3 years, 2 years of MS studies and later 1 year of Employment in Frisco, Texas.

Her father had earlier requested External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on X to find his daughter who was ‘actively messaging and reachable on phone but after 4 pm no further contacts could be established’.

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