Eight people were killed and another was injured after an SUV they were travelling in collided with another vehicle on the busy Indore-Ahmedabad Highway near Betma in Madhya Pradesh`s Indore district late on Wednesday night, police said. According to officials, the victims were travelling to Guna when their SUV collided with an unidentified vehicle on the four-lane highway.

"We received about a Bolero car accident on the Indore-Ahmedabad Highway in Betwa Police Station limits. There were nine people in the vehicle, and 8 of them were killed. All the people were going towards Guna," DSP (rural) Umakant Chaudhary said. "Of those eight people killed in the accident is a police constable. All the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination, and the other person injured in the incident has been taken to the hospital," he added.