India, Aug. 15 -- Six people were killed and another was injured early Friday morning after a car collided with a truck in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh, police said.

"The accident took place in the morning near Chirchari village under Baghnadi police station limits when the car jumped the road divider and entered the opposite lane," Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohit Garg said.

The deceased - Akash Maurya (28), Govind (33), Aman Rathore (26), Nitin Yadav (34), all from Madhya Pradesh, and Sangram Kesari from Odisha - were on their way to Odisha from Madhya Pradesh. The group was on a tour that began from Indore and included Ujjain, SP Garg added.

Preliminary investigation suggests that the driver might have dozed off, causing ...