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12 dead, 19 injured in two expressway accidents in SW China

05 May 2012 22:16 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA.Twelve people were dead and 19 others injured in two accidents on an expressway in southwest China’s Yunnan province Saturday, APA reports.

Among them, three were killed and another two injured as a truck registered in Jiangxi province rear-ended a car at 4:03 p.m. at the section of Yiliang county on the expressway from Shantou to Kunming, said Li Zhonghai, an local traffic police officer.

Fourteen minutes later in a separate accident, which happened 125 meters away from the previous one on the same expressway, nine were killed in a pile-up accident involving 11 vehicles, with another 17 injured, Li said.

The injured were rushed to hospital for treatment, and it was unknown yet whether their injuries were life-threatening or not, he said.

The causes of the accidents are being investigated.