22 killed, 13 injured in road accident in China

At least 22 people have been killed and 13 others injured when four vehicles including a bus collided and caught fire in China's northern Hunan province, officials said today.

A truck crashed through a guardrail and hit a coach yesterday which caught fire later on a Hunan section of the highway linking Shanghai and Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.

The accident also caused another two vehicles to collide on the highway, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The driver and another passenger in the truck have been taken into were kept under police custody for further investigation. The injured have been sent to hospitals.
 

The dead are being verified through DNA matching.