At least 13 people were killed on Monday evening after a container truck collided with a tempo traveller carrying a wedding party.
At least 30 others have also been injured in the accident that took place on a stretch of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway near Dhanivari in Maharashtra's Palghar region.
According to a statement issued from the Palghar district administration, it was the Eicher tempo traveller—carrying about 40 passengers—that had been travelling on the wrong side of the highway at the time of the accident.
The tempo had been just a short way away from its destination, the bride's house in Dhanivari, when the crash is said to have taken place.
When the container truck approached the wrong-way tempo from the opposite side, the driver of the truck allegedly lost control, which led to the container section of the truck colliding with the left side of the tempo, as per an Indian Express report.
A motorcycle carrying two passengers was also killed in the accident after it was caught in the collision.
(More details are awaited.)
