In West Bengal, sixteen people were killed and three others injured when a speeding truck collided head-on with a car on NH-34 at Kaluadighi near Malda town today morning. The dead includes fifteen men and a child.

The police officials said that the 13 people died on the spot, while remaining three sccumbs to injuries in Malda Medical College and Hospital. The victims were returning to their homes at Raiganj after attending a wedding reception at Sahapur near Malda town.

West Bengal government has announced an ex-gracia of two lakh rupees each to the next of the kin of all the decesaed.