Twenty people killed as bus falls off cliff in China
Twenty people from an opera company were killed after a bus fell off a cliff in China early Tuesday, state media reported.
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Beijing: Twenty people from an opera company were killed after a bus fell off a cliff in China early Tuesday, state media reported.
The coach was carrying staff of a local opera troupe, it said, adding the accident was under investigation.
Fatal road accidents are a serious problem in China, particularly involving the country`s often over-crowded long-distance buses.
The ministry of transport says there were 60,000 road deaths in 2012, down from 104,000 in 2003 but still more than 150 a day.
But a study published in 2011 by a group of Chinese and US researchers concluded that the number of deadly accidents was twice as high as police said.
In July last year, 43 people died when a van carrying inflammable liquid hit a bus on a motorway in central China.
In August, a tour bus plunged into a valley in Tibet after hitting two vehicles, leaving 44 people dead and 11 injured.
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