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Car accident killed 8 in Jiangxi
By Duan Ruolan (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-22 11:38

Eight people were killed in an expressway collision in East China's Jiangxi province early Thursday morning.  Sources from the provincial public security bureau confirmed the accident happened in the Shanghai-Kunming expressway’s section in Yujiang county.

The tradedy occurred at 4:20am when a truck, registered with a Hubei province license plate and was bound for Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi, rolled over to one side and was hit by a Guizhou-registered passenger bus afterwards. Five people were killed at the scene and three more died in local hospital.