Twelve people were killed and three others were injured in a
traffic accident on Monday morning in northwest China's Qinghai
Province, according to a local police source.
At 7:50 AM Monday, a heavy truck loaded with bottled beer
collided head-on with a bus carrying 13 passengers on a road in
Hualong Autonomous County of the Hui ethnic group, eye-witness Ma
Yingcang told Xinhua.
Eleven people were killed instantly and another died later in
hospital. Three survivors have been hospitalized. The passenger bus
was badly damaged.
Police said that investigations into the cause of the accident
are underway.?
(China.org.cn, Xinhua News Agency January 10, 2006)
