Six people were killed and one injured in a traffic accident in the small hours of Friday in Jingtai County, northwest China's Gansu Province, local police confirmed Saturday.
Jin Jugui, who is in charge of the local traffic police squad, said that at 1:30 a.m. Friday a truck, overloaded and speeding, rammed into another truck in front of it on a highway near Gaodun Village.
The accident-causing truck then rammed into a third truck driving ahead, killing six people instantly and leaving one seriously injured.
A fourth truck rolled off the highway because of the accident, police said.
Further investigation into the case is going on.
(Xinhua News Agency March 16, 2003)
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