Eight people were killed and 18 others were injured in a
bus-truck collision accident Tuesday evening in Yangshan County,
south China's Guangdong Province, local police sources confirmed on
Thursday.
At around 6:00 PM on Tuesday, a medium-sized bus ran into a big
truck head-on at the a section of No. 107 state highway in the
county, killing one on the spot. Three people died en route to a
local hospital, and four others died later in the hospital, the
police sources said.
Another 18 injured are now in stable condition, the sources
added.
Cause of the accident is being investigated.
(Xinhua News Agency December 28, 2006)