Perilous Times
Ten dead after truck ploughs through crowd in China
* From correspondents in Beijing
* From: AFP
* August 25, 2010 3:14PM
A TRUCK ploughed into a crowd of villagers chatting along a road in
eastern China, killing 10 people and injuring two others, state media
reported Wednesday.
The accident happened late Tuesday in Fujian province's Shouning
county, the Xinhua news agency reported. Eight people died at the scene
and two others died of their injuries in hospital, it said, citing a
county government spokesman.
Investigators were probing the cause of the accident, it said.
It was not immediately clear whether the driver was among the dead.
China's roads are among the most dangerous in the world, with traffic
laws widely flouted. Almost 70,000 people died in road accidents in
2009, or around 190 fatalities per day, according to police statistics.