Five Chinese police officers were killed in the country's southwest Guizhou Province when their car plunged off a 100-meter-deep cliff, local officials said.
The accident occurred yesterday when the five from a township police station in Zunyi county was driving on a local mountainous road, the county publicity department said in a statement.
Four police officers were killed on the spot and the other died from severe injuries while en route to hospital, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
