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Nine killed, three injured in bus plunge
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-12-05 16:59 GUIYANG -- Nine people died and three were injured after a bus plunged into a reservoir in a southwest China city on Thursday night, police said on Friday. The bus, from southwest China's Sichuan Province, was travelling too fast when it fell off the highway into a reservoir in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou Province, at around 11:00 p.m., police said. The bus, with 43 seats, carried 12 people, including three drivers. When the accident happened, the driver was 53-year-old Lu Yiwei who survived while the other two drivers died at the site. Rescue work started a few hours later and nine bodies had been found in the reservoir as of 2:00 a.m., police said. The injured had been sent to the hospital. Further investigation is still underway, police said. |
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