Three people were killed and 16 others injured in a bus-truck collision in south China's Hainan Province Wednesday, local authorities said.

A sleeper coach en route to Guangdong Province bumped into a mid-sized truck at about 10 a.m. in Qiongzhong County while turning a corner. Two motorcycles running behind rammed into the truck.

Drivers of the coach and the truck and a woman on a motorcycle died on the spot. One passenger was seriously injured and another 15 suffered bruises.

Local traffic police are investigating the cause of the accident.

(Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2009)