Exploding bus kills 17
2005-02-23 08:05
Beijing - Seventeen people were killed and 10 others hospitalised when a passenger bus exploded and was engulfed by flames in eastern China's Jiangsu province, state press reported on Wednesday.
The accident happened late on Tuesday as the bus was travelling along the Ningbo-Hefei highway, the Nanjing Morning Post said.
Those injured were severely burned, while 17 other passengers escaped the bus unharmed.
The bus was carrying migrant workers from Anhui province to eastern Zhejiang province when it burst into flames trapping many of the passengers in the back of the bus.
The cause of the accident was being investigated, the report said.
- AFP