Sixteen people were killed in a coach fire Wednesday afternoon
when the vehicle was being driven through Hengxian County in south
China's
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The coach was carrying more than 40 passengers from southwestern
Sichuan Province to Guangxi when it suddenly caught fire at the
Hengxian County section of the expressway from Nanning, the
regional capital to Wuzhou City in Guangxi. The cause of the fire
is unknown.?
Medical personnel were quickly on the scene and injured
passengers were taken to nearby a hospital. An investigation is
underway.
(China.org.cn, Xinhua News Agency March 2, 2006)
