Passenger bus crashes into tunnel wall killing 14


Beijing: A passenger bus collided into a tunnel wall in north China’s Shanxi province, killing 14 people and injuring 37 others, Chinese state media reported.

According to local authorities the accident happened at 2.37pm local time on the Hubei expressway on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV news said, and many people were sent to hospital for treatment.

Separately, three people were killed and 16 others injured after a car smashed into a crowd at a vocational school in Taizhou, located in east China’s Zhejiang province on Tuesday, the local public security bureau announced, according to Xinhua News.

That incident occurred at about 11.20am local time at the Taizhou Vocational and Technical College. The injured are in stable condition, the report said.

It was the latest deadly car accident located at a school in China.

On March 1, two people were killed and several children injured after a car careened into a group of people in a residential area of Dezhao in eastern China’s Shandong province, state media reported. — Reuters

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