10 die in China when bus flips on busy highway

By Mahmut Atanur

BEIJING

Police are probing a bus crash in southwest China, in which ten people died when a passenger bus flipped over on a busy highway.

State news agency Xinhua quoted police in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as saying that another 32 people were injured in the incident early Sunday, five of them seriously.

Among the dead was the bus driver.

Xinhua reported that the injured have been hospitalized, and rescue work is under way.

An investigation panel continues to try and find the cause of the accident.