Seventeen persons were killed on Thursday and 14 others injured in a bus-container collision in Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra, police said.
The accident took place on Dhule-Chalisgaon road near the Chinchgavhan crossing when the state transport bus collided head-on with the container truck, a Jalgaon police official told PTI over phone.
The injured persons were shifted to a hospital in Dhule, the official said.
Further details are awaited.