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Township officials killed in NE China traffic collision

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-05 21:14

HARBIN - Three township officials died and another two were injured on Sunday in an expressway crash in northeast China.

A car carrying the officials from a township of Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, and a truck hit each other at about 10 a.m. at a toll gate on the Beijing-Harbin Expressway.

Two other people in the car were injured and taken to hospital, said Tong Yibin, a traffic officer in charge of the section from the provincial capital, Harbin, to Shuangcheng.

Both vehicles were heading for Harbin, police said, without giving more details.

Police are investigating the cause of the accident.