India, Jan. 25 -- Seven people from Rajasthan were killed and three others were injured after a speeding truck, driven on the wrong side, rammed head-on into an Innova car in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Saturday, police said.

According to police officers, the speeding truck, bearing a Gujarat registration number, collided with the car on the Palanpur-Abu highway near Iqbalgadh in Amirgadh taluka. All seven passengers travelling in the car died, an officer said.

"The collision was so violent that the Innova was reduced to a mangled wreck, with debris strewn across the highway, while the truck overturned after the impact," the officer added.

Locals helped the police team pull out those trapped inside the vehicle.

"The bodies were ...