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Three killed as car drives off Hanoi bridge
Aug 27, 2009, 3:54 GMT
Hanoi - Three men were killed after a car drove off a bridge and fell into a river in Hanoi, local media reported Thursday.
The news website VNMedia reported the accident took place in the early hours of Wednesday when Tao Chi Kien, 33, drove his Chevrolet off a bridge into the Nhue River. Three passengers escaped and swam ashore, but three others drowned, including Kien.
The state-run newspaper Lao Dong quoted locals as saying the six men had been drinking.
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