Saturday May 5, 8:48 PM
Death toll in southwest China road accident rises to 16: Xinhua
(Kyodo) _ The death toll from a road accident in southwestern China on Friday morning has reached 16, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Saturday.
Quoting authorities in Yunnan Province, Xinhua said a light truck veered off a road following a collision with two other vehicles and ploughed into a crowd of about 60 people waiting for a bus at 8 a.m. on Friday.
Fourteen people died on the spot and 45 were injured. Two people died later at hospital and six more are on the hospital's critical list, the Lincang city government said Saturday.
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