Saturday, December 20, 2008

Identities of 14 victims in NE China road accident confirmed

HARBIN, Dec. 18 (Chinese media) -- Identities of fourteen people

killed in a collision in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province were confirmed,

police said Thursday afternoon.



The accident took place at around 7 a.m. in Nenjiang

County when a bus with 37 passengers and a dump truck collided head-on, said

sources from the provincial department of public security.

At least five other people were seriously injured,

said the sources.

The county government established 6 emergency teams

to handle the aftermath. More than a hundred people including policemen, doctors

and nurses joined the rescue efforts. All the injured were in hospital.

Senior traffic police officers from the provincial

department are investigating the cause of the accident.

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