Youths accused in acid attack killed in encounter

The acid attack on two college students in Warangal took another gruesome turn on Friday night, when the three accused in the case were shot dead by the police in an encounter in the outskirts of Warangal. District Superintendent of Police V C Sajjanar said that the three accused S Srinvas Rao, Potharaju Harikrishna and B Sanjay were killed when they attacked the policemen while trying to escape. The police had taken the three youths to a place near Mamnoor hillock, in the outskirts of Warangal, where they had reportedly hidden the material used to target the two engineering students.