A
tour bus has plunged into a Tibetan valley after hitting two vehicles, killing
44 people and injuring 11, China’s official news agency Xinhua reported.
“The
55-seat bus carrying 50 people fell off a 10-metre-plus-high cliff after
crashing into a sports utility vehicle and a pick-up truck,” the report said,
citing the regional government on Saturday.
Another
five people were in the other vehicles in the accident which happened at around
4:25pm (08:25 GMT) in Nyemo County, west of the capital Lhasa, in the Tibet
Autonomous Region which is governed by China.
The
bus passengers were mainly tourists from eastern China. The injured were being
treated at hospitals in Lhasa and did not have life-threatening injuries,
Xinhua said.
Pictures
on the news agency’s website showed rescue workers at the bus which was lying
with its wheels in the air.
Fatal
road accidents are a serious problem in China, particularly involving the
country’s often over-crowded long-distance buses.
In
August 2012, at least 36 people died when a double-decker sleeper bus slammed
into the rear of a methanol tanker and burst into flames in northern China.
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