India, June 11 -- At least five people, including a newly-wed couple from Madhya Pradesh, were killed and eight others injured on Wednesday morning after their car collided with a truck on the Dausa-Manpharpur National Highway (NH-148) in Jaipur, police said.

The newly-wed couple was heading to Dausa with 10 others when the truck, coming from the wrong side at high speed, rammed into the car.

"The passengers were returning from Madhya Pradesh after attending a wedding function of the newly-wed couple. There were at least 12 passengers in the car. It colluded with the truck leaving five killed and eight others injured," station house officer (SHO) of the Raisar police station Raghuveer Singh said.

The police said that the collision took...