Bus accident in northern China kills at least 35

Bus accident in northern China kills at least 35

2011-10-07 20:41:07 GMT+7 (ICT)

TIANJIN, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- At least 35 people were killed on late Friday afternoon when a passenger bus overturned in northern China, state-run media reported. Few details were immediately available.

The accident happened at around 4 p.m. local time on an expressway in Tianjin, a metropolis located in northern China, when a bus overturned after colliding with a car. The expressway links the city's Binhai New Area with the city of Baoding in neighboring Hebei Province.

A Tianjin government official confirmed at least 35 people were killed in the accident. He gave no other details such as the number of people on board the bus or how many people were injured.

Roads in China are known to be among the most dangerous in the world with more than 70,000 fatalities in 2009 alone. Many accidents are the result of drivers violating traffic laws, bad road conditions and overloaded vehicles.

The deadliest accident so far this year happened on July 22 when an overcrowded double-decker bus caught fire on a highway in the city of Xinyang in Henan Province, killing 41 people and injuring the only six survivors.

Last month, ten people were killed when a passenger bus overturned in the Chinese city of Shanghai. A total of fourteen others were injured, some of them seriously.

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