At least 13 people were killed and eight others injured when their jeep rammed into a stationary truck on the Ahmedabad-Indore highway in Kheda district of India’s Rajasthan in the early hours on Tuesday, the police said.

The family of a labourer and some other residents of Sejawada village in Madhya Pradesh’s Alirajpur district were returning home from Dholka near Ahmedabad when the mishap took place around 3 am, an official said, reports the Press Trust of India.

‘The jeep in which they were travelling collided with the stationary truck on Ahmedabad-Indore Highway near Kathlal town of Kheda district,’ Kathlal police station’s sub- inspector A G Rathod said.

‘Twelve people, including six women, died on the spot while a child succumbed to injuries in hospital,’ the SI said.

The deceased also included the jeep’s driver, he said.

The eight injured persons have been taken to a hospital in Kathlal, Rathod said.

There were total 25 people, including the driver, in the jeep when the accident occurred, he said.