BANGALORE: At least 25 people were killed and 45 injured on Thursday when a truck carrying guests to a wedding party crashed into a dry lake in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police said.

The accident occurred near a village in Hassan district, some 160 kilometres from the state capital Bangalore, the officials said.

“The truck in which the victims were travelling plunged into the dry lake from a bridge after the driver lost control,” district police inspector H.P. Basvesh said.

“About 100-120 people were travelling in the open truck, which was on way to a village temple for a wedding feast,” he said. Unconfirmed media reports said up to 39 were dead and 50 hurt.

—AFP