Morena road accident
Morena road accidentANI

Twelve people died and six others were seriously injured in a road accident in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district on Thursday. 

The accident occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning as a jeep carrying members of a family to a funeral collided with a sand-carrying truck on Ambah road. Of the 12 dead, seven were women.

Six others are currently being treated at a nearby hospital. Police are unclear what the cause of the accident was and are investigating the matter.

[With inputs from ANI]