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INDIA

Truck, rickshaw crash kills 16

A truck and an overcrowded motorized rickshaw collided in southern India, killing 16 people, half of them from a single family, police said on Sunday. All the victims came from the rickshaw and were on their way to a temple in Adilabad district of Telangana state on Saturday night. The area is 270 kilometers northeast of Hyderabad, the state capital, said police officer A. Ramulu. Another three people were hospitalized. The dead included eight members of a family and were mostly brick kiln workers.