Fifteen persons were killed and 40 others injured after an Uttar Pradesh-bound private bus, mostly carrying labourers going home for Diwali, rammed into a trailer-truck from behind in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.
The accident occurred around 11.30 pm on Friday near Teonthar town, when the bus was going to Gorakhpur from Hyderabad, they said.
The bus, a sleeper coach, was negotiating a mountain road in Sohagi ghati when it rammed into the trailer-truck from behind on NH-30, Rewa Superintendent of Police (SP) Navneet Bhasin said.
The trailer-truck suddenly applied brakes after it hit another vehicle ahead of it, due to which the bus crashed into the truck, he said.