Bangladesh, July 28 -- A parked bus rolled into a group of migrant workers sleeping by a roadside in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after being hit by a speeding truck from behind early on Wednesday, killing 18 people on the spot.

The accident occurred in the state's Barabanki district, some 28 kms from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.

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Police said that the migrant workers returning to their home state of Bihar in eastern India on the bus started sleeping in front of the vehicle after it suddenly broke down on a busy highway late on Tuesday night. The victims were coming from the neighbouring northern state of Haryana.

"The truck crashed into the parked bus at a hig...