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10 killed in road accident in E China

Xinhua,February 20, 2018 Adjust font size:

NANCHANG, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Ten people were killed after an overloaded passenger vehicle skidded off the road in east China's Jiangxi Province Tuesday morning, local authorities said.

The accident happened at around 10:30 a.m. in Ningdu County in Jiangxi, when a 19-seater carrying 32 people skidded off the road at a downhill turn and landed in a 10-meter-deep ditch, according to the provincial public security department.

Nine passengers were killed at the scene and another died later after medical treatment failed. The injured have been rushed to nearby hospitals. Enditem

 

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