Seven passengers were killed and 14 others were injured in a road accident when a bus and a container truck collided head on in Madhya Pradesh on Friday morning.
The accident took place at around 7 am on a highway near in a village in Bhind district.
Four of the injured are critical and have been taken to a hospital in Gwalior, 79 km away, the police said. The people in the bus were travelling from Gwalior to the town on Bareli in Madhya Pradesh.
"We have arrested the driver. The incident is being investigated," police officer Manoj Singh said.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed deep grief over the road accident involving a bus and a dumper in Bhind district. Expressing his condolences to the families of the deceased, he prayed to God for peace to the departed souls and speedy recovery of the injured.
Chouhan has issued orders to give financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each to the injured persons and to get the accident investigated.