(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-08-25 20:33

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 around 1:00 pm on the No. 107 National Highway in the Dongxihu district of Wuhan, capital of Hubei.

Rescue work and investigation in the cause of the accident are 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.