Fri, August 17, 2012
China

Truck-bus crash kills five in north China

2012-08-17 08:49:37 GMT2012-08-17 16:49:37(Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

TAIYUAN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed and one injured Friday after a heavy-duty truck collided with a mini-bus in north China's Shanxi Province, local police said.

The accident occurred about 11 a.m. in state-level road in Shouyang county, leaving four out of the six aboard the mini-bus killed at the scene.

One of the rest two injured in the mini-bus died later at hospital after treatment failed, raising the death toll to five.

An investigation into the cause of the collision is under way.

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