Nine persons were killed and an equal number injured, five of them seriously, in a head-on collision between a lorry and van at Kamplapura in Mysore district today.
The victims, hailing from Dakshina district, were returning home after a visit to Tamil Nadu, police said.
The lorry was transporting LPG cylinders.
The injured have been admitted to hospitals in Periyapatna and Mysore, they said.