Truck crash kills 54 pilgrims in northwest China
BEIJING: A truck returning from a pilgrimage to Tibet overturned, killing at least 54 people and injuring 41 in China’s dirt-poor northwestern province of Qinghai, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The truck carrying 104 people overturned near Kuola mountain on Monday, Xinhua said without giving a reason for the accident. Trucks transporting people are a common sight in China’s impoverished hinterland. Fifty people died on the spot and four died on the way to hospital, the agency said, adding that 29 passengers were seriously injured. It did not give details of the pilgrimage but Tibet is predominately Buddhist. More than 600 people are killed each day on China’s roads, the World Health Organisation has said, double the death toll announced by China’s state media and the highest national toll in the world. The accidents are blamed on shoddy and inadequate traffic infrastructure and booming car consumption. afp
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