At least 19 people including four women were killed and about 15 others injured today when the private bus they were travelling in collided with a truck near Choti Chhaegaon Makhan, about seven kilometres from here.
"The bus collided head-on with the truck on Khandwa-Indore road," City Superintendent of Police Abhishek Diwan told PTI this evening.
The injured were rushed to the district hospital.
The bus was on its way to Khandwa from Indore while the truck was heading towards Indore. Both the vehicles were moving at high speed at the time of accident, police said.
The deceased were yet to be identified.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced an ex-gratia aid of Rs 1.5 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased persons and Rs 50,000 to those injured.
(Published 01 July 2015, 15:27 IST)
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