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At least 14 people, including three children, were killed in a collision of a bus with an autorickshaw in the Indian state of Bihar, local mass media reported.

Six more are hospitalized in an accident that occurred on Monday, RIA Novosti reported.

The locals organized a protest action at the scene, blocked the road and demanded compensation for the victims. The state authorities have already declared that the relatives of the victims will receive 400,000 rupees.

Serious accidents often occur in India because of congestion, poor road conditions and careless driving, According to the official statistics, every day 400 people are killed as a result of accidents, nearly 150,000 become the victims of road accident annually. At the same time, according to the World Health Organization, death toll on Indian roads is much higher and exceeds 200,000 people in recent years.

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