Lagatar24 Desk
Beijing, Sept 18: A bus crash killed 27 people and injured a further 20 when the vehicle rolled over on a highway in southwest China’s mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Sunday.
#UPDATE Twenty-seven people were killed in a bus crash in southwest China on Sunday, state media reported, in the country's deadliest road accident so far this year.
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 18, 2022
The accident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning in Sandu county, around 170 km (105 miles) southeast of the provincial capital, Guiyang, police said.
The bus was carrying 47 people and the 20 injured were being treated on Sunday, police added without giving further details.
No other information has been released at the moment. More details are awaited.