The death toll rose to nine, and the seriously injured increased
to 16 in a dozen of pileups on an expressway linking Beijing and
Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, local police sources said
Tuesday afternoon.
The pileups occurred at 6:25?AM Tuesday within the section
between cities of Jinzhou and Panjin in Liaoning, due to a heavy
fog that suddenly blanketed the area, said the transport safety
bureau of the Public Security Department of Liaoning.
The accidents involving 28 motor vehicles, have left nine people
dead and 72 people hospitalized, including 16 seriously injured who
have been out of critical condition, according to the bureau.
The section of the expressway resumed traffic at 11?AM
Tuesday.
(Xinhua News Agency May 24, 2006)
