At least five persons were killed and four others seriously injured after a truck hit a stationary milk tanker in north Maharashtra's Jalgaon district, a police official said. The accident took place around 4 am on Muktainagar-Malkapur Road, over 450 kms from Mumbai, he said.

"The milk tanker that was heading to Jalgaon from neighbouring Dhule district had taken a halt on the road due to some technical snag. The company had sent another tanker to the spot and the work of transferring the milk was on," the official said.