At least 13 people including 12 women died after an auto-rickshaw carrying them collided head-on with a speeding bus in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior in India Tuesday morning.

The accident took place around 7:00 am when the women, who were cooks at an "anganwadi kendra" were returning home after work, Gwalior SP Amit Sanghi said. 

Among the deceased, eight women and the auto driver died on the spot, the others succumbed to their injuries in a hospital, he said. 

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed grief over the incident and announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh each to the family of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those injured in the Gwalior accident.