10 killed after bus bursts into flames
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Ten people were killed and 17 injured when a fire broke out on a bus yesterday morning as it drove along the streets of Jilin City in northeast China’s Jilin Province, local authorities said.
The local fire department was alerted at 7:05am with reports that a shuttle bus for the Fukang Wood Company was driving along a street ablaze.
Forty-three people were on board when the fire broke out.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, said fire officials.
Meanwhile, the death toll from a truck and tanker collision and explosion in a tunnel in north China’s Shanxi Province on Saturday rose to 13 yesterday.
Rescuers had put the number killed at 12 on Tuesday, but this was updated to 13 as the operation ended.
Teams found 12 bodies in the tunnel, while one of the 11 people injured in the accident died in hospital.
At 2:50pm on Saturday, a coal truck rear-ended one of a convoy of four tanker lorries that were loaded with methanol — which is often used as a fuel — in the Yanhou Tunnel on a highway linking Shanxi’s Jincheng City and Jiyuan City in Henan Province.
The collision caused a fire and explosion, which is thought to have caused most of the deaths and injuries.
Some 53 people managed to escape the inferno, including four of the coal truck and tanker drivers.
The four drivers are now being held in custody, police said.
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