Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, February 19, 2002
8 Die in Southwest China Bus Accident
Three people were killed instantly when a passenger bus carrying 30 people hurtled over a 30-meter-high cliff on the No. 318 road Sunday afternoon in mountainous southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Three people were killed instantly when a passenger bus carrying 30 people hurtled over a 30-meter-high cliff on the No. 318 road Sunday afternoon in mountainous southwest China's Sichuan Province.
By press time, another five people died in the county hospital of Tianquan, 40 km from the accident site and the remaining 22 were injured, some seriously.
The driver Li Minggang was among the seriously injured. Local police are still investigating the accident.