44 dead, 11 injured after tour bus plunges off cliff in Tibet

A tour bus plunged into a Tibetan valley on Saturday after hitting two vehicles, killing 44 people and injuring 11, Xinhua News Agency reported.

"The 55-seat bus carrying 50 people fell off a 10-meter-plus cliff after crashing into a sport utility vehicle and a pickup truck," the report said, citing the regional government.

Five people were in the truck and SUV involved in the accident, which occurred at around 4:25 pm in Nyemo county, west of the capital, Lhasa, in the Tibet autonomous region.