At least three persons were killed and another injured today when a tanker containing phosphoric acid was hit by a van in China's central Hunan province.
The accident took place at around 8:20 AM on the Hunan's Changde section of the highway linking Inner Mongolia in north China with Guangdong province in the south, according to the provincial expressway traffic police bureau.
The victims were travelling in the van.
Two of them were killed on the spot while the other died in hospital.
The tanker contained phosphoric acid, according to the provincial expressway management bureau, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
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