13 killed as bus and overloaded auto-rickshaw collide in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior

Gwalior: The death toll from the road accident in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior has risen to 13, police said on Tuesday. Out of 13 people who died after an auto-rickshaw and a bus collided head-on in Gwalior, 11 are women, they added.

City superintendent of police (CSP) Ravi Bhadoriya said nine women and the auto-rickshaw driver were killed on the spot. "In an overloaded auto-rickshaw, 13 people mainly women were going to cook food in a function when a speedy bus coming from Morena hit their vehicle,” Bhadoriya said.

Police are trying to identify the deceased.  

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted to condole the deaths of the 10 people and announced compensation to their families.

“I and the people of the state are with bereaved families in this hour of grief. They should not consider themselves alone. The state government will give ₹4 lakh to the families of each deceased and ₹50,000 to those injured,” Chouhan posted.

“I am saddened by the untimely loss of precious lives in the deadly collision between bus and auto in Gwalior. I pray to God to grant the departed souls a place at his feet and their relatives to bear this tragedy. Om Shanti!” the chief minister’s tweet, roughly translated from Hindi, read.