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School bus crash kills 19 in China
Nov 16, 2011, 7:26 GMT
Beijing - Nineteen people, including 17 children, were killed early Wednesday when their overcrowded school bus crashed head-on into a truck in north-western China early Wednesday, a news report said.
The small bus operated by a local kindergarten was fitted with nine benches, and was overloaded with 64 passengers at the time of the accident, a county spokesman was reported as saying.
Forty-five people, mostly children, had been hospitalized, 13 of them with serious injuries, authorities of Zhengning County, Gansu province, were quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
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