Five killed in China as bus falls into ravine

At least five people were killed and 27 injured after a bus fell into a ravine in China's Sichuan province Thursday, authorities said.

The accident occurred in the morning after a bus broke through a guardrail and fell into the 47-metre-deep ravine in the Daxian county, Xinhua quoted provincial administration as saying.

Two of the 32 people aboard the bus were killed at the accident site, two died on way to hospital and one died at the hospital. The 27 others were hospitalised.

Roads in China are known to be among the most dangerous in the world with more than 70,000 fatalities in 2009 alone. Many accidents are the result of drivers violating traffic laws, bad road conditions and overloaded vehicles.

In late February, fifteen people were killed when a tourist bus plunged into a ravine along State Highway 207 in the county-level city of Gaoping, which is located in north China’s Shanxi province. Nineteen people were injured, eight of them seriously, according to the Chinese government.

Thursday 20 December 2012

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