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5 killed, 33 wounded as tourist bus flips into ditch

AT least five people were killed and 33 injured when a tourist bus tumbled off a highway in central China's Hunan Province at about 9am today.

The intercity bus was carrying 42 people from Leshan, southwest Sichuan Province to Xiamen, eastern Fujian Province when the accident happened.

The bus veered off the highway in Loudi City and rolled into a roadside ditch, local police said on its official microblog.

Four died at the scene and one succumbed later in a local hospital where other injured passengers are also being treated.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation.



 

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