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Five dead in southwest China road accident

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-04 18:47
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KUNMING - Five people died and another was injured when a truck overturned and crushed a car in southwest China's Yunnan Province, police said Sunday.

The truck rolled on to car carrying six people on a highway in Jianchuan County at about 10 p.m. Saturday. Five people in the car were found dead when rescuers cut open the wreckage.

The truck driver was slightly injured, said a county traffic police spokesman.

The identities of the victims were not yet available.

Police were investigating the cause of the accident.