Thirteen cars collided into each other around 7:00 PM on Sunday on an expressway from Kaiping to Yangjiang near the city of Jiangmen, Guangdong Province.
Twenty-four people were killed and 30 others injured, with nine still in a critical condition as of Monday morning.
Those injured were rushed to hospital right after the accident at the Enping section of the expressway. An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway.
In another car crash in Guangdong, four people died and 38 were injured in a pileup on the Shenzhen-Shantou Freeway.
According to local sources, an initial accident occurred Sunday morning near the Neihu section in Shanwei in the direction of Shenzhen, but tragedy ensued as more than 30 automobiles piled up one after another because of poor visibility due to heavy fog.
No further details are as yet available.
On Friday, nine miners were killed in an accident at Daming Coal Mine in Diaobingshan, a city in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
Seven were killed in the mine immediately following an explosion, and two others who had been seriously wounded died after a medical rescue failed.
Four others, suffering mainly from bruises and bone fractures, are currently receiving treatment and are in a stable condition, said Sun Shikui, head of Tiefa Coal Industry Department Hospital.
According to Liaoning Provincial Coal Mine Safety Inspection Bureau, a fire started in a disused tunnel as 13 miners were reinforcing an adjacent one. The fires spread to an area with a gas leak and caused the explosion.
(Xinhua News Agency January 24, 2005)
