A Coach Crash In China Has Left At Least 36 People Dead

Associated Press, Time
Thu, 08/10/2017 - 6:27pm

(BEIJING) — An official Chinese news agency says at least 36 people were killed and 13 others injured in a crash on an expressway in the country’s northwest. Xinhua News Agency reported Friday, citing local police, that a coach crashed into the wall of a tunnel on an expressway in the province of Shaanxi. The accident occurred late Thursday as the coach was on its way to Luoyang, a city in central China, from Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan. Xinhua says the injured have been sent to the hospital and rescue efforts were ongoing.

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