Karnataka: As many as nine people, including four children, were killed and 10 injured after a head-on collision between a tempo traveller and a KMF milk van in Karnataka’s Hassan district.

According to the police, the incident happened near Gandhinagar in Arsikere taluka of Hassan district. The accident involved a milk tanker, a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus, and a tempo traveller which piled up in Hassan around 11 pm on Saturday, it added.

The deceased travelling in a tempo were returning after visiting Dharmasthala, Subramanya, Hasanamba temples, police said. While six of them died on the spot, three died on the way to the hospital, the sources said.