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Ten people were killed and seven others injured after a dumper truck collided with their sports utility vehicle (SUV) in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district, a police official said on Monday.

The mishap took place around 11 pm on Sunday when Balu Narayan Chowdhary and his family were on their way to Chinchol village after attending a marriage function at Chopra village, located around 400 km from here, he said.

A dumper truck coming from the opposite direction collided with the SUV on Chopra-Faizpur road near Hingola village in Yaval tehsil, the official at Faizpur police station said.

Chowdhary, his wife and eight other SUV occupants died on the spot, he said.