LANZHOU - One person was killed and 46 others injured, 16 of them severely, as a bus rolled over after rear-ending a sedan Saturday afternoon in Northwest China's Gansu province.

The accident happened at about 2:45 pm on a highway in rural Lanzhou, the provincial capital, when a bus crashed into the back of a sedan, then drove out of the highway and eventually rolled over, police said.

The injured have been rushed to two hospitals in Lanzhou.