Seven people were dead and another was seriously injured after a
minibus collided with a truck in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Saturday morning, local
police said.
The accident occurred at about 10:00 AM in Duyun City in the
Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Qiannan when a minibus
carrying eight people crashed head-on into a heavily-laden truck
licensed in neighboring Sichuan Province.
The collision killed six people in the minibus on the spot and
another died later in hospital. The injured passenger in the
minibus was in a critical condition, said rescuers.
Police found that the truck, with a cargo capacity of 4.95 tons,
was carrying 16 tons of goods when the accident took place.
(Xinhua News Agency April 29, 2007)