Two major traffic accidents on Saturday in China killed at least 20 people, police sources said.

 

A bus-truck collision in central China's Hubei Province killed 16 people and injured 12 others. It happened at 1:25 PM on the No. 107 National Highway in the Dongxihu district of Wuhan, capital of Hubei.

 

The bus overturned and fell into a pond on the side of the roadbed after it collided head-on with the truck, which was out of control at that moment, according to the city's traffic police bureau.

 

The truck driver ought to take responsibility for the accident, the police said.

 

Hubei provincial and Wuhan city officials rushed to the site to oversee rescue work.

 

All the injured were sent to local hospitals. Investigation in the cause of the accident is underway.

 

Another accident occurred at 3:20 AM at Hamin section of the No. 312 National Highway in the country's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. A mini-bus with six people aboard overturned off the roadbed, killing four passengers and injured another on the spot.

 

The driver, who was not injured, is blamed to take full responsibility for the accident due to driving with tiredness.

 

(Xinhua News Agency August 26, 2007)