Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Five die, 23 injured as bus overturns in S China's Guangxi

NANNING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed and 23 injured after a long-distance bus veered off a village road and overturned in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Tuesday.

The bus with 57 aboard, overturned at about 6:15 a.m. in Shanglin County, Guangxi, while en route from Nanchong, Sichuan Province, to Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, said Wu Ying, a Shanglin county publicity official.

Five died on the scene. All the injured, three seriously, have been hospitalized.

The cause of the accident is still being investigated.

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