INDIA – Eight people were reportedly killed after a bus caught fire in the state of Maharashtra, India, on Wednesday.

It was gathered that the bus which was travelling from Pune city in Maharashtra to Ahmedabad in Gujarat state collided with a truck on a highway also has fourteen other passengers injured.

Traffic was halted for a few hours after Wednesday morning's crash near Manor, some 90km (55 miles) from the city of Mumbai.

According to a local Police official, the luxury bus crashed into a truck carrying gas cylinders and then caught fire.

The dead, according to the Police official, included the driver of the bus, while the 11injured passengers had been admitted to a local hospital.

Findings revealed that nearly 140,000 people died in road accidents in India in 2012, according to the government's National Crime Records Bureau.