Ahmedabad, 16th June 2021: Ten members of a family, including a child, were killed in a car-truck collision near Tarapur in Gujarat’s Anand district on Wednesday morning.

According to the information received, the police reached the spot as soon as the incident was reported. The bodies have been sent to Tarapur Referral Hospital.

According to an officer of the Tarapur police station, the accident took place on the state highway connecting Tarapur in Anand district with Vataman in Ahmedabad district.

He said, “There were 10 people including a child in this car. The accident happened when the speeding truck rammed the car. The collision was so strong that all the 10 people in the car died on the spot.”

He said the car was going towards Vataman while the truck was coming from the opposite direction. Efforts are on to retrieve the bodies and identify the dead from the damaged remains of the car, the official said.