Hyderabad, Aug 31: The Kamineni super-speciality hospital in Telangana has sacked four nurses, including a male staffer, for taking selfie with the body of Nandamuri Harikrishna, the son of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister NT Rama Rao.

Harikrishna passed away on Wednesday morning after his car met a road accident in Anneparthy village. He was rushed to the Kamineni hospital located in Narketpally in Nalgonda district. The accident injuries, however, proved fatal.

The selfie was taken by the hospital staffers while preparing his body for post-mortem. Over the past couple of days, the image was going viral in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, with netizens expressing their outrage against the insensitive act.

Taking cognizance, the hospital swung into action and immediately terminated the four employees on grounds of "insensitivity".

The hospital spokesperson Venkat Bharadwaj said the  incident has shamed the medical facility, adding that they have expressed their "deepest regret" to the family members and supporters of late Harikrishna.

"We strongly condemn this kind of uncivilised, inhuman behaviour. We are deeply saddened by what went down, and will work on making things better so as to prevent such acts from happening again," said the official statement released by the hospital.

61-year-old Harikrishna, a former Member of Parliament from the Telugu Desam Party, had also left a mark in the Telugu cinema with his work as an actor.  He is survived by his wife Lakshmi Harikrishna and sons N. T. Rama Rao Jr and Nandamuri Kalyan Ram.

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