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Five die in car-truck collision in Vietnam

Xinhua, May 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

Five people, including three Vietnamese Americans in a family, were killed on early Sunday morning when their car was hit by a container truck in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, local online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) reported.

According to preliminary investigation, the seven-seater car and a 45-seat coach were running on the National Highway 1 to head for a pagoda in Dong Nai Province, which borders Ho Chi Minh City. When the two vehicles were waiting at the stoplights, a speeding container truck forcefully rear-ended the car. The truck's driver was nodding when the collision happened, local online newspaper Tien Phong (Pioneer) quoted reliable sources as saying.

According to Nguyen Ngoc Tuong, deputy head of the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Board, the accident is among the most serious ones happened across the city since the beginning of this year.

A total of 759 traffic accidents occurred in the city in the first two months of this year, killing 138 people and injuring 686 others, the board earlier announced. Endi