Four people died and four were injured Sunday after a head-on crash between a cargo truck and a mini-bus in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Police said that the truck from Qing'an County swayed to the left side of the road due to brake failure and bumped into a mini-bus at about 7:40 a.m. in Tieli City.

Four people on the mini-bus died at the scene, and two people on the bus and another two on the truck were injured, said a spokesman of the emergency response office of Yichun City, which Tieli is part of.

The injured have been sent to hospital.