At least 16 people were killed after an intercity bus collided head-on with a tanker truck on a major highway on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, local officials said, Xinhua reports.

The crash occurred on the Trans-Sumatra Highway in Karang Jaya district, South Sumatra province.

Officials from the local disaster mitigation agency, BPBD, said emergency teams were deployed immediately to evacuate victims.