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Tibet bus accident: 44 killed, 11 injured

By PTI

| Updated: Sunday, August 10, 2014, 9:00 [IST]

tibet-bus-accident — In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers try to pull out bodies and survivors from an overturned tour bus after it fell off a 10-meter (30-foot) cliff in Nyemo County, southwest China's mountainous region of Tibet Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. AP/PTI

Beijing, Aug 10: At least 44 people were killed and and 11 others injured in China today when a tour bus plunged into a Tibetan valley after a three-vehicle pile-up.

"The 55-seat bus carrying 50 people fell off a 10-metre-plus-high cliff after crashing into a sports utility vehicle and a pick-up truck," state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Another five people were in the other vehicles in the accident which happened at around 4:25 pm (0825 GMT) in Nyemo County, west of the capital Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The bus carrying 50 people fell off a high cliff after hitting two vehicles

The bus passengers were mainly tourists from regions including Anhui, Shanghai, Shandong and Hebei. The injured were being treated at hospitals in Lhasa and did not have life-threatening injuries, Xinhua said. An investigation into the cause of the accident is under way. Police have detained managers of the Feixiang Travel Agency and the Shengdi Vehicle Tour Company blamed for the accident.

PTI