
At least 13 people were killed and 50 injured on Tuesday when a bus carrying 61 people collided head-on with a truck on a highway in northwest China's Gansu Province, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
The accident occurred when the bus broke through the central partition, veered into the opposite lane and crashed into the oncoming semi-trailer truck on a highway in the city of Jiuquan, local police said, according to the report.
Eleven of the dead were passengers on the bus, including a child, and two were in the truck. Of the injured, six are in critical conditions, while the other 44 suffered minor injuries.
The Gansu provincial government has dispatched officials and experts to the site for rescue work, the report said, adding that an investigation into the case is under way.
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