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At least 8 dead in east China road accident

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-06-01 02:09

HANGZHOU - At least eight people have died in a road accident in east China's Zhejiang province late Monday, local traffic police said.

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A bus with nearly 50 people aboard broke through highway guardrail and rolled down the roadbed some five to six meters deep, after it collided with a car on a highway in Jiaxing city at about 9:25 pm.

The bus from the eastern Shandong Province was severely damaged. All the passengers had been rushed to hospital by 10:30 pm.

The death toll might rise as some passengers were in critical conditions, rescuers said.

Further details were not immediately known.