At least 14 killed in China highway pile-up

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News ID: 31017
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Publish Date: 10:02 - 04 November 2018
TEHRAN, November 04 - Authorities in China said at least 14 people have been killed and 27 injured in a highway pile-up.

At least 14 killed in China highway pile-upTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The accident Saturday night happened after a heavy truck lost control and crashed into a line of vehicles waiting at a toll station in the northwestern province of Gansu.

Last week, 15 people were killed after a bus to plunged off a high bridge into China's Yangtze River in the western city of Chongqing.

In that previous crash, an eight-second surveillance video released by police showed the driver and a passenger arguing and grappling with each other in the moments before the bus suddenly veered across oncoming traffic and off the bridge.

Source: AP

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