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Mob Overturns Ambulance After Chinese Students Die in Crash

Dec 27, 2010 – 2:10 PM
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At least 14 children on their way to school in central China's Hunan province were killed this morning when the vehicle carrying them ran off a fog-covered road and plunged into a creek, according to news reports.

An angry crowd then turned over an ambulance after it was slow in arriving to the scene, where nine children died immediately after the crash, according to an Agence France-Presse photographer. Four others died after they were taken to a hospital. Another child who had been reported missing was found dead, the Xinhua news agency reported, according to CNN.

It's not clear whether anyone in the ambulance was hurt.

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People angered that medical services were slow to arrive to the scene of a fatal accident overturn an ambulance Monday in Hunan province, China.
Authorities were still investigating the cause of the accident, but a spokesman for the local government said the weather was foggy, Xinhua reported.

In a separate accident in southwestern Guizhou province, seven people were killed and 15 injured in a crash of more than 100 vehicles on an expressway, the United Press International reported, also citing Xinhua.

A truck crashed into a gas station around 8 a.m., triggering the massive pileup. Six people died at the scene and one died in a hospital.

Fog was again cited. Visibility was still less than 160 feet two hours after the accident, reports said.
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