By Xinhua
Changsha (China) : Nine people were killed and 52 injured in a pile-up involving four vehicles on a highway in central China’s Hunan province in the early hours of Monday, the police said.
The accident occurred at 3:28 a.m. Monday on a section of highway in Hengyang county.
According to the police, a passenger van, heading from southern Guangdong to Loudi in Hunan, bumped into a heavy transport vehicle running ahead of it. Two other vehicles following the van crashed into the truck.
Three people died at the site of the accident and six of the injured succumbed to their injuries at a hospital.
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