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Fire kills 24 aboard steel company bus in Jiangsu

TWENTY-FOUR people died on board a steel company bus that erupted in flames in eastern China, state media reported today.

The shuttle bus, carrying night shift workers of a steel company in Wuxi in Jiangsu province, caught fire late yesterday when passing through a tunnel, China's national radio service said on its website (www.cnr.cn).

There were a total of 45 people on the bus, it added.

Nineteen passengers were injured, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The reports did not say what may have caused the fire.



 

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