Thirteen labourers were killed and two others injured after a tipper truck carrying them along with steel overturned due to a pothole in Buldhana district of Maharashtra, police said.

The incident occurred near Dusarbid village at Tadegaon Phata on Sindkhedraja-Mehkar Road around 12 noon when the labourers were being taken to work in Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway project, an official said. A total of 16 labourers, including a girl, were travelling in the vehicle that was also transporting steel for the highway project, he said. "The tipper was speeding and it overturned due to a large pothole on the road.