Five people were killed and another person was injured in a
pile-up of four motor vehicles that occurred on a highway in
southwest China's Yunnan Province on Wednesday afternoon, said
local police.
The accident occurred around 6:40 p.m. on Wednesday on a highway
section about 32 kilometers from the provincial capital
Kunming.
Police said a heavy towing vehicle running at a high speed
bumped into a car on the sloping section, and knocked into a tanker
and a truck before it stopped.
Three people aboard the towing vehicle and two in the car died
on the scene. One person on the tanker was injured and was
hospitalized.
Investigation into the accident is underway.
(Xinhua News Agency January 4, 2008)