Texas: Four Indians were burnt to death after riding behind a car on the highway in Texas, USA. Those who traveled through the carpooling app, a taxi sharing system, were involved in the accident. Aryan Raghunath Orambatti, Farooq Shaikh, Lokesh Palacharla and Darshini Vasudevan were killed, according to media reports.

The car caught fire and all the passengers were stuck inside the car and were burnt. Aryan Raghunath and his friend Farooq Shaikh were returning from visiting a relative in Dallas. Both are natives of Hyderabad.

Darshini Vasudevan and Aryan Raghunath who died in the accident

Lokesh Palacharla was on his way to Bentonville to meet his wife. Tamil Nadu native Darshini Vasudevan, a graduate student from the University of Texas, was on her way to visit her uncle in Bentonville.

External Affairs Minister S. Jayashankar and others are being contacted.