Highway collision in China kills 38
BEIJING— A truck loaded with flammable liquid collided with a bus on a highway in southern China on Saturday, killing at least 38 people.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency said the truck rear-ended the bus around 3 a.m. on the Hukun Expressway in Hunan province, with the truck’s driver and passenger among the dead. Five people were also injured.
Xinhua said the flames destroyed a total of five vehicles before being extinguished five hours later.
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Images broadcast on Chinese state television showed both vehicles severely burned and what appeared to be passenger belongings scattered on the road.
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