Two passengers were killed and 27 others injured after a bus collided with a truck in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday morning, police said.

The accident occurred near Kasrawad town when the bus was going towards Indore, an official said. “A 42-year-old man and a woman aged 32 – both of them bus passengers – were killed and 27 others injured in this accident,” Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Tarunendra Singh Baghel said.

Narayan Lal, an injured passenger, alleged that the accident took place due to the bus driver’s careless driving.