HOHHOT, Feb. 3 (Chinese media) -- A 46-year-old man injured
in a bus-motorbike collision in north China on Sunday has died in hospital,
bringing the accident death toll to nine.
The man, identified as Wu Feng, died during surgery
at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday at Chifeng Hospital, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said
hospital official Yu Lei.
No other details about Wu were available.
The accident happened at 4:10 p.m. Sunday when the
bus, which was traveling to Baoding city, Hebei Province, and the motorbike
collided on a highway in Harqin Banner, Chifeng City.
Both people on the motorbike and five people on the
bus died.
One person who was seriously injured is in a stable
condition in hospital and nine others with slight injuries are under medical
observation.
A Chifeng public security bureau official said Ren
Haijun, the bus driver, had been detained pending an investigation into the
cause of the crash.
An initial investigation found the 34-seat bus was
carrying 47 people at the time of the accident, the official
said.

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