India, Feb. 24 -- A truck driver was killed and at least six passengers were injured in a major road accident early Tuesday near the Katraj ghat stretch on the Pune-Bengaluru highway.

The accident occurred around 4:30am at the stretch ahead of the new tunnel towards Mumbai near Dari Pool, on a downhill slope between Katraj tunnel and Navale Bridge.

According to police, a luxury bus traveling from Kolhapur to Mumbai was rammed from behind by a truck loaded with iron rods and pipes.

The collision's impact was so severe that the truck's front cabin was completely smashed. The truck driver, identified as Hussain Abbas Sayyed, 55, a resident of Tumakuru in Karnataka, sustained critical injuries. He was rushed to Silver Birch Diagnostic Cent...