Bengaluru: Nine people, including three children killed after a jeep collided with a truck on National Highway near Sira, Tumakuru district in Karnataka. The tragic accident also injured 11 people. According to SP Rahul Kumar Shahpurwad, who visited the accident spot, said that all of them were daily wage workers, labourers coming towards Bengaluru.
Earlier on August 17, five members of a family died after a car collided with a container truck that was driving on the wrong side of the road on the Ahmednagar-Pune Highway in Pune in the early hours the day, police said.
The mishap took place near Ranjangaon Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation.