Three people died and five others were injured when a sleeper
bus ran into a long-haul truck early on Monday in Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region in northwest China, local sources said.
The bus, which had 37 people aboard, was heading toward Urumqi,
the Xinjiang regional capital, from Aksu, said sources from the
Mongolian Autonomous Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party
of China (CPC) of Bayingolin.
When the bus reached the 391-kilometer mark of the freeway
connecting Hoxud and Korla, both situated in the southern part of
the Tianshan Mountains, it slammed into the rear portion of the
truck around 1:40 a.m., killing the driver and two others
instantly.
Five passengers were slightly injured.
Following the crash, a joint working group consisting of
personnel from the public security, work safety and medical
services rushed to the site to attend to the accident.
All the injured were hospitalized.
Identities of the dead were not released.
(Xinhua News Agency, December 3, 2007)