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Bus-truck pile-up kills five, injures 30 in E. China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-07 15:57
Five people were killed and 30 others injured in a bus-truck pile-up that
occurred in east China's Jiangxi Province early Tuesday morning, local police
said.
Two passenger buses and a heavy-duty truck rammed into each other
successively at about 5:00 a.m. Tuesday on a highway in Futian Township of
Shangli County. Five people were killed and 30 others were injured, 11 of them
seriously. All the injured were hospitalized immediately.
Nine of the 11 seriously injured people were out of danger by press time,
according to local hospital sources.
Investigation into the cause of the accident is still under
way.
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