As many as eight people were killed and 21 injured in a road accident involving a private bus carrying passengers from Maharashtra and a rice-laden truck on the Hubballi-Dharwad Bypass Road near Hubballi at midnight on Monday.
Police Commissioner Labhu Ram said that the accident occurred at around midnight near Revadihal on the bypass road close to the Tarihal Interchange in Hubballi. The injured were immediately shifted to Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and Hospital in Hubballi.