HARBIN - Seven people died and one was injured when two sedans collided around noon on Saturday in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, local police said.

Two cars with a total of eight people on board hit head-on in the city of Zhaodong at around 12:30 pm Saturday, leaving six dead at the scene. Another person died on the way to hospital and one person was injured, municipal traffic police said.

Police are looking into the cause of the accident.