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Bus fire kills 17, injures five
By Liang Chao (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-02-24 02:54
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.
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| Firefighters inspect the wreckage of a bus on which a fire and
blast occured in Jiangpu, Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province February
22, 2005. At least 10 passengers were killed, with 17 others wounded. The
cause of the accident was still under investigation.
[newsphoto] | Authorities said 44 passengers were
aboard the bus when the incident took place at 9:44 pm on Tuesday. Only 17
people were reported safe, with the rest injured or killed. All the dead were
instantly killed, a local reporter interviewed at the site said, Xinhua
reported.
"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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