Eleven people died and six others were injured after a bus overturned on a mountain road Tuesday afternoon in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, local traffic police said.

The accident occurred at 1:15 PM in Yongchuan City when a 19-seat bus with 17 people on board turned over near a toll-gate and plunged off 23 meters onto a lower section of the winding mountain road that connects Dajiankou and Baofeng.

Ten people were killed on the spot. One of the seven injured died in hospital, according to traffic police.

Local officials rushed to the site for rescue effort and the accident is under investigation, police said.

(Xinhua News Agency November 22, 2006)