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CHINA / Regional |
Freeway accident leaves 15 dead, 25 injured(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-02-19 10:53 CHANGSHA -- Fifteen people were killed and 25 injured in a freeway accident in Hunan Province, central China, on Monday. The accident happened at around 7:00 p.m. at Chenzhou city on the north-south freeway connecting Beijing and Zhuhai city in south China's Guangdong Province, according to traffic police. It was believed a bus heading north ran into the rear of a tanker, triggering a fire and an explosion which ignited three other motor vehicles already tangled in a previous road accident, said a police spokesperson. The traffic on the Beijing-Zhuhai freeway was stopped temporarily because of the accident. Vice Governor Liu Liwei led a group of public security, communications, work safety and environmental protection officials to the site to investigate the cause of the accident and handle the clean up, said a spokesperson for Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). All the injured are being treated in hospital. |
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