Kolkata, June 20 (UNI) At least nine people were killed in a head-on-collision between a heavily loaded truck and a small vehicle in West Bengal's Purulia district bordering Jharkhand on Friday morning, officials said.

Police said the victims, who were returning in a Bolero from a wedding party, were from the neighbouring Jharkhand's Nimdi area.

The accident occurred in the early morning at Namsole on the Purulia-Jamshedpur National Highway when the victims were returning home from a wedding party.

The victims were yet to be identified.

Police said all the occupants of the small car were presumed dead after being involved in the head-on collision with the 18-wheel truck, which also turned turtle.

The bodies were sent for postmortem.

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