Ten people died instantly and about 50 others were injured when
a speeding bus hit a tanker truck, then another bus on an
expressway in the southern province of Guangdong early on Monday,
the local government said.
The speeding bus, en route from Shenzhen to Nanning in the
neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, rear-ended the truck
at around 1:00 a.m. on an expressway in the coastal city of
Zhanjiang, traffic police there said.
The bus then veered across the median of the expressway and
crashed into an oncoming bus that was en route from Nanning to
Zhuhai.
Police said the injured passengers were being treated at several
hospitals.
Authorities have yet to identify the dead.
(Xinhua News Agency January 7, 2008)