By Xinhua
Hefei (China) : At least 11 people have been killed and 51 injured when a bus carrying people beyond capacity skidded off an elevated highway about six metres above the ground in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, local sources said.
The accident happened late Sunday night when the driver of the bus with 72 people aboard, 21 more than allowed, lost control trying to avoid a head-on collision with another vehicle on an ice-covered section of the highway, provincial traffic police said.
Seven people died on the spot and four succumbed to their wounds at the hospital.
The passengers were mostly migrant workers returning home to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Police arrested the driver of the bus, who survived the accident.