Rewa (Madhya Pradesh): A woman was killed and more than 20 other people were injured when a truck hit a private bus in Madhya Pradesh's Mauganj district early Monday morning, police said.
The accident took place near Khatkari village on Rewa-Varanasi highway at around 4 am, an official said.
The bus was going to Varanasi (in Uttar Pradesh) from Beohari in MP's Shahdol district. Its driver was changing a punctured tyre when the truck hit the stationary bus from the rear side, Shahpura police station in-charge Abhishek Patel said.
A woman was killed and more than 20 others were injured, five of them critically, he said.
The seriously injured persons were referred for treatment to a hospital in Rewa district, located about 60 km from Mauganj.
The other injured persons were being treated at the Hanumana health centre, the official said.