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5 died after car tumbles into canal in central China

FIVE people, including two adults and three children, died after a private car overturned and tumbled into a canal in central China's Hunan Province Friday morning.

The accident happened at around 9 am when a couple was driving three kids to kindergarten in Xiangyin County in the city of Yueyang. The car overturned at a junction and fell into a nearby canal. All five aboard died of drowning, according to local authority.

Police, firefighters, and officials from local education and health departments joined the rescue operation.




 

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