Forty-three people were injured when two buses collided in the northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, Lanzhou Morning Post reports.
![The front of a bus is seriously damaged after it collided with another bus in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080908/0019b93bd68d0a2efa6801.jpg "The front of a bus is seriously damaged after it collided with another bus in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post]") |
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The front of a bus is seriously damaged after it collided with another bus in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post] |
The accident happened on the Wuwei Road at around 1 p.m., when a bus lost control and run headlong into another which was picking up passengers at a nearby bus station.
Three passengers were seriously injured, the report says. The collision also knocked down a tree and damaged the door of a nearby shop.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
![People gather at the scene of a bus collision accident in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20080908/0019b93bd68d0a2efaad02.jpg "People gather at the scene of a bus collision accident in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post]") |
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People gather at the scene of a bus collision accident in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post] |
(CRI September 8, 2008)