Road collisions kill 56 in China
15:05, 8 October 2011
LONDON. October 8. KAZINFORM At least 56 people have been killed in a series of road collisions in China including 35 mainly young people travelling on a bus; Kazinform refers to BBC.
Chinese officials said the speeding bus hit a car on a motorway in northern China and rolled over throwing passengers onto the road.
A further 10 people died in a 24-vehicle pile-up on a fog bound motorway in eastern Anhui province.
Eleven others in central Henan province died when a truck crashed into a van.
The collisions all occured on the last day of a week-long national holiday; Kazinform cites BBC.
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