An executive of a Taiwan food company in central China's Hubei Province was among six people killed in a traffic accident on Sunday, local authorities confirmed Monday.
A tour bus carrying 34 people overturned after hitting a parked truck on a mountainous road in Wufeng County at 1:50 p.m., according to the county's publicity department.
Onboard the bus were two drivers, two tour guides and 30 tourists, 25 of whom were from the Wuhan Uni-President Food Co. Ltd., wholly owned by Taiwan's biggest food maker Uni-President Enterprises Corporation. Twenty-eight people were injured.
Cai Tianci, a 55-year-old company executive from Taiwan, and five employees aged from 23 to 38 were killed, said Wang Yunyang, chief of Wufeng's publicity department.
Four adults and three children who were seriously injured were transferred to a nearby city for medical treatment.
Zou Yilin, the vice head of the No. 1 People's Hospital of Yidu City, told Xinhua that a 10-year-old boy suffered a skull fracture, but all seven patients were described as stable.
Another 20 slightly injured people were still in a small hospital in Wufeng.
Officials with the local public security and work safety authorities are investigating the cause of the accident.
(Xinhua News Agency April 28, 2009)
