Bharuch , Gujarat: Nine employees of a pharma company along with a driver were killed and eight others injured when a truck collided with three vehicles on National Highway No. 8.
A steel pipes laden truck was heading towards Surat from Bharuch last night when its driver lost control of the vehicle near Panoli GIDC area on the national highway and hit a car, according to Ankleshwar rural police.
After hitting the car and, the truck jumped the divider and collided head-on with a Bhavnagar-bound state transport bus on the other side of the highway.
The truck them collided with a jeep going towards Bharuch carrying around 15 passengers.
"Because of the impact of the collision, the truck fell on the jeep, killing 10 persons travelling in it," a police official said.
