Jaipur/Poona, Apr 24: At least 43 persons were killed in separate mishaps in various parts of the country today. In the first incident, at least 24 people, including seven women and five children, were killed and six others injured when the vehicle in which they were travelling collided head-on with a truck in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, police said.

The accident occurred near Kanodia village, about 100 km from here on Jodhpur-Jaisalmer road, when a pick-up van carrying the people was on its way to Dechu from Setrawa and collided head-on with a truck at around 12.30 am, Jodhpur Superintendent of Police Sanjeeb Kumar Narzary said.

Seventeen people died on the spot and seven others succumbed to their injuries on their way to the hospital, Narzary said.

The injured have been admitted in Madhuradas Mathur Hospital at Jodhpur.

In another incident, 19 people belonging to a marriage party drowned when a boat capsized in the Bhatghar reservoir near here, police said on Thursday.

Eleven bodies have been fished out after the tragedy that struck a marriage party returning in a boat from village Welwand to Wakamba in Bhor taluka of this Western Maharashtra district on Wednesday night, they said.

Nine persons out of 28 on the boat were rescued by the villagers who rushed to the spot on hearing the distress calls, police said.

According to information available here, the boat tilted and lost balance in deep waters due to a strong current of wind with the victims, including women and children, meeting a watery grave, they said, adding a search for the missing bodies was on.