Posted: 07/19/2014 01:12:13 AM PDT
Updated: 07/19/2014 01:12:14 AM PDT
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BEIJING (AP) - A truck loaded with flammable liquid collided with a bus on a highway in southern China on Saturday, killing at least 38 people.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency said the truck rear-ended the bus around 3 a.m. on the Hukun Expressway in Hunan province, with the truck's driver and passenger among the dead. Five people were also injured.
Xinhua said the flames destroyed a total of five vehicles before being extinguished five hours later.
Images broadcast on Chinese state television showed both vehicles severely burned and what appeared to be passenger belongings scattered on the road.
Entities 0 Name: BEIJING Count: 1 1 Name: Hunan Count: 1 2 Name: Xinhua News Agency Count: 1 3 Name: Xinhua Count: 1 4 Name: AP Count: 1 5 Name: Hukun Expressway Count: 1 6 Name: China Count: 1 7 Name: AM PDT Click Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1qmiHxW Title: Dozens Dead In China From Truck Collision With Passenger Bus Description: Posted: Print Article BEIJING (AP) - At least 38 people have died in a collision between a truck loaded with flammable liquid and a passenger bus on a highway in southern China. The state-run Xinhua News Agency says the truck rear-ended the bus around 3 a.m. Saturday on the Hukun Expressway in Hunan province.
