Nine people died and 23 were injured when a bus veered off a
country road near Dingxi City in northwest China's Gansu Province on Sunday, local police
reported Monday.
The 29-seat bus was carrying 32 people, including an
eight-month-old baby, from Kangjiaji Village in Lintao County to
the county seat, when it plunged down a slope into a deep ditch at
9:40 AM on Sunday.
The accident killed four people on the spot. Five others died
later at hospital. The other passengers were all injured, seven of
them seriously.
Fortunately the baby and two other kids, aged six and eight,
survived the tragedy with slight injuries, according to Gansu
traffic police.
An investigation is underway.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2007)