Eight passengers were injured when their private luxury bus rammed into a truck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Monday, reported news agency PTI.

The accident occurred near Kasa on Sunday afternoon when the bus was heading from Mumbai towards Ahmedabad, they said.

The bus hit a truck moving ahead of it, Kasa police station inspector Avinash Mandale said, reported PTI.