Five people were dead and another one was injured after a minibus collided with a truck Monday afternoon in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, police said.

The crash happened around 3 p.m. in the city of Hechi, instantly killing four people and injured two others, according to city police.

A few minutes later, an injured person who had been thrown out from the vehicle was run over by a passing car and was killed, the police said.

A further investigation is under way.