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Eight die, 24 injured in bus accident in east China

2010-04-19 09:48 BJT

NANCHANG, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Eight people died and 24 were injured in a road accident Sunday on the Ganyue expressway's Jishui section in east China's Jiangxi Province, local police said.

The accident involving a tour bus took place at around 6 p.m. near Jishui county, and the injured had been rushed to hospital, the traffic police section under the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Public Security said in a statement.

A tour bus overturned, a witness told Xinhua over the phone.

Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.

Ganyue expressway links Heyuan city of south China's Guangdong Province with Ganzhou city of Jiangxi.

Editor: Zhang Ning | Source: Xinhua