Twenty-seven people died in a bus crash in southwest China on Sunday. It is the deadliest road accident in the country since the beginning of the year. It happened on a highway in the rural province of Guizhou, when the bus carrying 47 people “tipped over onto its side”.
Twenty-seven people died Sunday in a bus accident in southwest China, the deadliest in the country since the beginning of the year, police said. The crash happened on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying a total of 47 people “tipped onto its side”, police said in a statement posted on social media. The other 20 people are being treated for injuries and help has been dispatched to the scene, police added, without giving further details.
The deadliest accident in the country since the beginning of the year
The accident happened in Qiannan prefecture, a poor, isolated and mountainous region of Guizhou, where several ethnic minorities live. In June, a driver was killed after a high-speed train derailed in Guizhou province. In March, 132 people were killed in the crash of a Chinese airliner in the south of the country, the air crash being the deadliest in China for decades.