India, Aug. 16 -- Four musicians from Gujarat were killed and seven others injured on Saturday morning after a traveller bus carrying the musicians collided head-on with a truck on National Highway-27 near Surwaya in Madhya Pradesh, police said.

A group of 20 musicians - all residents of Mehsana and Surendranagar districts of Gujarat - were returning after performing at a "Shiv Katha" event at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Shivpuri Aman Singh Rathore said.

They were reportedly part of a team accompanying Gujarat's religious storyteller Lankesh Babu, who had returned to Gujarat by flight on Friday.

"The bus driver might have dozed off while crossing Surwaya, lost control of the vehicle, which ...