India, July 14 -- At least nine labourers were killed while 12 others got injured when a truck carrying mangoes overturned on the embankment of a tank in Andhra Pradesh's Annamayya district late on Sunday night, police said on Monday.

The incident took place near Pullampet village around 11pm. All of the deceased were identified.

While eight of them died on the spot, one person succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment at the government hospital in Rajampet.

A police official of Pullampet police station said as many as 21 labourers from Shettigunta ST Colony in Railway Kodur block (of Annamayya district), Vaddivedu and Kalvakuntla areas of Venkatagiri block in Tirupati district had come to Isukapalli village for harvesting of ma...