44 die in China bus plunge
Sunday, 10 August 2014
At least 44 people were killed and 11 injured as bus plunged into a dicth off a cliff following a vehicle pile-up on Saturday in southwest China’s Nyemo county, authorities said on Sunday. The bus carrying 50 people, mostly tourists, fell off an around 10-metre-high cliff after crashing into a sports utility vehicle and a pick-up truck around 4.25pm on Saturday. The bus passengers were mainly tourists from Anhui, Shanghai, Shandong and Hebei regions. At the time of the accident, four people were in the sports utility vehicle and one was in the truck. The injured were being treated at several hospitals in Lhasa and their injuries were not life-threatening, according to Xinhua.