Three women journalists, including a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, died in a bus accident on a highway in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China on December 6.

Four of the other eight people on the same minibus were seriously injured and another four received minor wounds.

The three reporters who died are Qing Shating, an intern with the Guangxi Bureau of Xinhua News Agency, Li Xiaoxia from the local bureau of China News Agency and Tang Liuyan from Guangxi People's Radio Station.

The accident happened at 4:20 p.m. Monday when the minibus carrying nine reporters and two employees of the Liuzhou Railways Bureau was hit head-on by a bus, rolled over on the highway and was demolished.

The three women were killed immediately and the injured were sent to the hospital for treatment. No one on the bus was injured.

The reporters were writing articles about a part of railway connecting Nanjing, capital of Guangxi, and Kunming, capital of neighboring Yunnan Province, and were making the trip at the invitation of the Liuzhou Railways Bureau.

The accident remains under investigation.