Coach fire leaves 16 dead in S. China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-01 19:58

Sixteen people have been killed as a coach caught fire Wednesday afternoon when driving through Hengxian County in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The coach was carrying more than 40 passengers from southwestern Sichuan Province to Guangxi, when it suddenly caught fire for the unknown reason at the Hengxian County section of the expressway from Nanning, the regional capital to Wuzhou City in Guangxi.

Medical personnel have immediately reached the site to move the injured passengers to nearby a hospital.