14 killed after bus crashes into tunnel wall on Chinese expressway
37 people were injured in the Hohhot-Beihai Expressway crash, state media reports
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}- A bus crash occurred on Tuesday in northern China, killing 14 people.
- The crash happened on the Hohhot-Beihai Expressway in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province.
- The bus was carrying 51 passengers when it reportedly crashed into a tunnel wall.
A bus crashed into a tunnel wall on an expressway in northern China killing 14 people, state media said Wednesday.
Thirty-seven other people were injured in the Tuesday afternoon crash, state broadcaster CCTV said.
The bus was carrying 51 passengers when it hit the wall on the Hohhot-Beihai Expressway in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}There was no word on the cause of the accident, which CCTV said trapped passengers in the bus.
A view of the city skyline is seen at sunrise in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China. A bus crashed into a tunnel wall on an expressway on Tuesday in Linfen, killing 14 people, state media said on Wednesday. (In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)
In another crash in China last week, one person died and 37 were injured when a long-distance bus rear-ended a local bus that had stopped on the roadside, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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