As many as 10 people lost their lives on Saturday, with four others being injured in a road accident involving a truck and an auto-rickshaw in Madhya Radish's Katni, the district collector VS Chaudhary confirmed.
The accident occurred in the afternoon when the truck and the auto-rickshaw collided head-on on the national highway 78, claiming the lives of nine people on the spot, while one succumbed to his injuries en-route to the hospital.
The injured persons are currently being treated at the Katni district hospital.