As many as five people, all labourers, were killed and as many others were injured after being run over by a truck on a highway in Maharashtra's Buldhana district on Monday, police said, reported the PTI.

According to the news agency, the accident took place at around 5.30 am when the labourers were sleeping in makeshift huts along the side of a service road being constructed in Wadner Bholji village of the district.