At least 15 people were killed and 40 others injured after a bus crashed into a truck parked along a busy highway in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in early hours on Saturday.
The tragedy occurred near Suhagi Pahari in Rewa district, some 600km from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, when a group of 100 workers was returning to their home district of Uttar Pradesh in northern India for Diwali on that ill-fated bus, reports UNB.
A senior police officer told the local media, “The bus hit the truck from behind at high speed after its driver failed to spot the parked vehicle on the road. The impact of the collision was so strong that 15 passengers died on the spot.”
“Those injured were taken to a hospital in Suhagi. Few with serious injuries were later shifted to Rewa's Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital,” he said.
A probe has been ordered into the accident, the officer added.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
