By RIA Novosti
Beijing : Six people were killed and 12 others injured when a bus collided with the railings of an expressway in south China, the country’s Xinhua news agency reported.
The accident occurred at 1:59 a.m. local time (5:59 p.m. GMT) on Monday in the Guangdong Province. The driver and five passengers died at the site, and another person was seriously injured.
Investigators believe the crash was caused by driver fatigue and speeding, Xinhua cited an official from the nearby city of Dongguan as saying.
A total of 42 passengers were in the bus at the time of the crash. The coach was travelling from the Zhuang Autonomous Region to Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.