Bus plunge kills 17, injures 28
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June 21, 2012, Thursday
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A BUS plunged into a ravine, killing 17 people and injuring 28 others in Fujian Province yesterday, local authorities said.
The accident happened on an expressway viaduct in Xiapu County, Ningde City at about 2am. The bus overturned and fell more than 50 meters into a ravine, said Yang Peiqin, secretary of the Xiapu County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The vehicle was traveling from Wuxi in Jiangsu Province to Xiamen City in Fujian with 45 people aboard, including two children, Yang said.
Of the injured, three were hurt seriously. They are being treated in hospitals and their identities have been confirmed.
Passenger Wu Aiquan said: "I was half asleep when the accident happened. I felt I was falling from the sky.
"I heard a big bang, just like an earthquake, when the bus hit the ground. All the windows were smashed to pieces."
Wu, who sustained as fractured rib, said people were crying and shouting loudly. He added that he crawled out of a broken window to exit the bus.
Xiapu is a hilly coastal county.Police, firemen, border troops, expressway and medical authorities have launched a rescue operation.
The bus with two decks of beds had capacity for 45 people. It was not overloaded, rescuers said.
"It was raining hard when the crash occurred and the bus was traveling downhill and turning. The vehicle rolled over the viaduct's guardrail and its front end hit the ground first," a rescuer said.
Police and transport authorities are still investigating.
The accident happened on an expressway viaduct in Xiapu County, Ningde City at about 2am. The bus overturned and fell more than 50 meters into a ravine, said Yang Peiqin, secretary of the Xiapu County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The vehicle was traveling from Wuxi in Jiangsu Province to Xiamen City in Fujian with 45 people aboard, including two children, Yang said.
Of the injured, three were hurt seriously. They are being treated in hospitals and their identities have been confirmed.
Passenger Wu Aiquan said: "I was half asleep when the accident happened. I felt I was falling from the sky.
"I heard a big bang, just like an earthquake, when the bus hit the ground. All the windows were smashed to pieces."
Wu, who sustained as fractured rib, said people were crying and shouting loudly. He added that he crawled out of a broken window to exit the bus.
Xiapu is a hilly coastal county.Police, firemen, border troops, expressway and medical authorities have launched a rescue operation.
The bus with two decks of beds had capacity for 45 people. It was not overloaded, rescuers said.
"It was raining hard when the crash occurred and the bus was traveling downhill and turning. The vehicle rolled over the viaduct's guardrail and its front end hit the ground first," a rescuer said.
Police and transport authorities are still investigating.
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