22 killed in Indian truck collision

Twenty-two people were killed and another 24 injured when their truck rammed into a steel-laden lorry in the southern Indian …

Twenty-two people were killed and another 24 injured when their truck rammed into a steel-laden lorry in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

The dead included five women and six children. Eighteen people were killed on the spot, while four died on their way to hospital.

Sixty people were travelling in the truck on their way to the western state of Maharashtra in search of work when the accident occurred yesterday.

AFP