Eightlabourers were killed and 32 others injured after their pickup vehicle collided with a dumper truck in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district early Tuesday, police said. The accident occurred around 1 am near Chhimka village on the Bhind-Gwalior National Highway, they said. The labourers were returning to their village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district after completing paddy transplantation work in Gwalior. Preliminary investigations suggested that the driver of the labourers’ vehicle lost control while trying to avoid cattle sitting on the highway. The vehicle veered into the wrong direction and collided head-on with a dumper truck coming from the opposite direction, Gohad Chauraha police station in-charge Ramnaresh Yadav said. The impact badly damaged the vehicle, trapping several labourers inside, he said. Eight labourers were killed in the accident.