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5 dead on countryside road as drivers avoid toll gate
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-08 09:03

FUZHOU -- Five people were killed in two days at the same section of a countryside road as drivers tried to avoid the toll-gate on a national highway in east China's Fujian Province, local authorities said.

Two vehicles rolled off the road into a brook Friday and Saturday at the Lushui section of a countryside road in Xiqin Township, Nanping City, killing four and one respectively, police said.

Drivers chose the newly-built road, which was free, as the No. 205 national highway across the brook has a toll-gate, according to fire brigade officials of Nanping.