Ten Passengers killed, 20 injured in road accident in Madhya Pradesh

At least ten passengers were killed  and another 20 injured in road accident in  Madhya Pradesh's Maihar district on Saturday night .The injured were immediately shifted to hospital where condition of five passengers is stated to be serious. 

Police said that  Six people died on the spot and another four succumbed to injuries in hospital .Around 20 people were also injured after the bus rammed into a stationary stone-laden truck in Maihar at around 11 pm on Saturday, they said.

The accident took place on National Highway 30, about 25 km from the district headquarters, as per police.

The bus was heading for Nagpur via Rewa after starting from Prayagraj when it crashed near the Nadan Dehat police station, Maihar Superintendent of Police( SP) Sudhir Agrawal told.

While six fatalities were reported earlier, four more people succumbed to injuries in a hospital, taking the death toll to nine, he said.