Pre-school children among 12 dead in east China car accident

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Beijing, May 9, 2017 (dpa/NAN) Twelve people, including 11 pre-school children, were killed and one person was seriously injured after the vehicle they were in caught fire inside a tunnel in eastern China, the Weihai City government said on Tuesday.

It said that 11 pupils at the Weihai Zhongshi Korean International School were in a rented vehicle along with a teacher and a driver when the vehicle caught fire at about 9 a.m.

“The children and the driver were killed on the way to school, and the teacher is badly injured.

“Six pupils were Chinese and five were Korean, they were between three and six years of age.

“Previously, South Korea’s Yonhap agency had reported that 10 of the students were Korean and one was Chinese,’’ the government said citing the South Korean Embassy in Beijing.

The local government said that the cause of the crash is under investigation. (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Abdullahi Yusuf