9 killed in coach crash
Source: Xinhua |
July 3, 2011, Sunday
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NINE people were killed and 22 others were injured after a tourist bus fell into a ravine early yesterday in Taigu County, Shanxi Province, rescuers said.
The coach carrying 31 passengers lost control on the Taiyuan-Changzhi expressway and crashed into the roadside ravine, about 15 meters deep, at 3:50am yesterday, according to rescuers from the Shanxi provincial traffic authorities. All the injured have been sent to hospitals in Taigu and the neighboring county of Yushe.
The bus driver was killed and the co-driver was injured. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
The rescuers said heavy rains early yesterday morning had made the expressway wet and slippery.
The Henan-registered coach bound for Henan Province was from Dongsheng City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the rescuers said.
The coach carrying 31 passengers lost control on the Taiyuan-Changzhi expressway and crashed into the roadside ravine, about 15 meters deep, at 3:50am yesterday, according to rescuers from the Shanxi provincial traffic authorities. All the injured have been sent to hospitals in Taigu and the neighboring county of Yushe.
The bus driver was killed and the co-driver was injured. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
The rescuers said heavy rains early yesterday morning had made the expressway wet and slippery.
The Henan-registered coach bound for Henan Province was from Dongsheng City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the rescuers said.
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