13 killed in auto-bus collision in Madhya Pradesh

New Delhi: Twelve women and a man died after the auto-rickshaw carrying them collided with a speeding bus in Old Chawni area in Gwalior Tuesday morning, police said.

The accident happened around 7 am when the women, who were cooks at an ‘anganwadi kendra’ were returning home after work, Gwalior SP Amit Sanghi said.

While eight women and the auto driver died on the spot, the others succumbed to their injuries in a hospital, he said.

The MP government has announced a sum of Rs 4 lakh each to the family of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to injured, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, according to news agency ANI.