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13 killed in China bus accident

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IANS Beijing

At least 13 people were killed Tuesday in a bus-truck collision in China's Gansu province.

The accident occurred at 12.20 p.m. when the bus jumped the central divider of a highway and ran into the opposite lane to crash into the semi-trailer truck in Jiuquan city, Xinhua reported.

Eleven of the dead were passengers on the bus and two were in the truck.

The bus, owned by a company in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was going from Miquan in Urumqi to Guyuan in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

--Indo-Asian News service

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First Published: Aug 26 2014 | 4:48 PM IST

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