India, April 13 -- Six people, including five wedding guests and the truck driver, were killed, and seven others critically injured after a speeding truck rammed into a bus carrying a wedding party and overturned on it in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district in the early hours of Monday, police said.

According to police, the accident occurred around 1.30am on the Dhaulana-Gulawathi road, about 22km from the Hapur district headquarters, under the Dhaulana police station area.

Hapur Superintendent of Police (SP) Gyananjay Singh said the bus, carrying around 20 wedding guests, was returning to Ghaziabad's Dasna after attending a marriage function in Bulandshahr's Gulawathi when the incident took place.

"A bus carrying passengers returning from ...