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Bus fire kills 17, injures five
At least 17 passengers were killed with more than five others injured on Tuesday night when a bus caught fire, blew up and burned along the Jiangpu section of an expressway from East China's Anhui Province to Zhejiang Province.
"Passengers escaped from the burning bus by jumping out of the front and the back doors, while police and firefighters rushed to the spot," he said. Passengers, all from a town of Lu'an County in East China's Anhui Province, took the bus heading for Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province, to seek jobs after the Spring Festival. A young man at his 20s was pushed out of a window of the bus by his mother. The woman was found to have died inside the vehicle. The bus was under repair before the day it travelled on the road, a passenger whose name cannot be verified said. All the injured have been sent to a hospital nearby. The cause of the incident is still under investigation, according to the Nanjing Morning Post. |
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