Ahmedabad, June 18 -- Eight people, including a nine-year-old, were killed and 26 others were injured after a sleeper bus travelling from Rajasthan to Surat rammed into a stationary truck on the Vadodara-Halol National Highway on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place near Kotambi village around 3.30 am. Police said the truck driver had stopped his vehicle at the outer lane to inspect the vehicle's tyre pressure when the bus struck it from behind. According to superintendent of police (SP) Vadodara (rural) Sushil Agarwal, the stretch is a four-lane highway, but only two lanes are operational, leaving little room for vehicles to manoeuvre around a stationary truck in the same lane. Police arrested the truck's driver, Navneet Bharatbhai Vaghela (25), for stopping the vehicle in the middle of the highway, which caused the accident, and booked him under BNS, Agarwal said. All the casualties were from the bus that was ferrying 34 passengers. The truck driver and his helper, who were outside the vehicle, remained unharmed in the collision. "Two of the injured succumbed to injuries, taking the death toll to eight," Agarwal said, adding that the remaining 23 injured are undergoing treatment at different hospitals. Police said postmortem procedures were completed and the bodies were handed over to relatives. Agarwal said, "Four or five deaths happened in the cabin itself, because people were sitting in the front."...