Across China: Yunnan

Police car kills schoolgirl

A young girl was killed and four people were injured when a police car went out of control in southwest China's Yunnan province, local officials said yesterday. The accident occurred at 6 pm on Wednesday near People's Park in Zhenxiong, after a police vehicle ran into a car, a cab and two minibuses, said an official surnamed Zhang with the county committee of the Communist Party of China. The fifth-grade girl, who was walking home, died at the scene. The driver, a policeman with the Tangfang police station, has been detained.