Thirteen cars collided into each other around 7:00 PM on Sunday
on an expressway from Kaiping to Yangjiang near the city of
Jiangmen, Guangdong
Province.
Twenty-four people were killed and 30 others injured, with nine
still in a critical condition as of Monday morning.
Those injured were rushed to hospital right after the accident
at the Enping section of the expressway. An investigation into the
cause of the accident is underway.
In another car crash in Guangdong, four people died and 38 were
injured in a pileup on the Shenzhen-Shantou Freeway.
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According to local sources, an initial accident occurred Sunday
morning near the Neihu section in Shanwei in the direction of
Shenzhen, but tragedy ensued as more than 30 automobiles piled up
one after another because of poor visibility due to heavy
fog.
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No further details are as yet available.
On Friday, nine miners were killed in an accident at Daming Coal
Mine in Diaobingshan, a city in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
Seven were killed in the mine immediately following an
explosion, and two others who had been seriously wounded died after
a medical rescue failed.
Four others, suffering mainly from bruises and bone fractures,
are currently receiving treatment and are in a stable condition,
said Sun Shikui, head of Tiefa Coal Industry Department
Hospital.
According to Liaoning Provincial Coal Mine Safety Inspection
Bureau, a fire started in a disused tunnel as 13 miners were
reinforcing an adjacent one. The fires spread to an area with a gas
leak and caused the explosion.
(Xinhua News Agency January 24, 2005)