16 killed as tourist coach falls off bridge
Source: Xinhua |
January 5, 2012, Thursday
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At least 16 people died when a 53-seat tourist coach carrying 56 people fell from a highway bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province yesterday.
The 40 injured people had been sent to hospital, said officials with Guiding County, where the accident took place.
The coach, from the eastern province of Anhui, plunged into a valley 10 meters deep at about 6:40pm while it was driving along an expressway in heavy snow.
It was the second deadly bus accident in China in just two days.
Thirteen people died and 41 others were injured, including nine seriously, on Tuesday when a heavy-duty truck collided with a coach on the mid-section of the Shanghai-Kunming expressway in central Hunan Province.
Police said one of the truck's drivers was badly injured and was in hospital. The other has been detained.
Police said there were a total of 54 passengers on board the coach when the accident happened.
Nine people died at the scene and another four died on the way to hospital, said a spokesman for the local government.
Doctors said that three of the badly injured were in a critical condition and not yet out of danger last night.
The 40 injured people had been sent to hospital, said officials with Guiding County, where the accident took place.
The coach, from the eastern province of Anhui, plunged into a valley 10 meters deep at about 6:40pm while it was driving along an expressway in heavy snow.
It was the second deadly bus accident in China in just two days.
Thirteen people died and 41 others were injured, including nine seriously, on Tuesday when a heavy-duty truck collided with a coach on the mid-section of the Shanghai-Kunming expressway in central Hunan Province.
Police said one of the truck's drivers was badly injured and was in hospital. The other has been detained.
Police said there were a total of 54 passengers on board the coach when the accident happened.
Nine people died at the scene and another four died on the way to hospital, said a spokesman for the local government.
Doctors said that three of the badly injured were in a critical condition and not yet out of danger last night.
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