Changsha: At least 15 people have been killed and 25 injured when a bus rammed into the rear of a tanker, triggering a fire and an explosion in central China's Hunan province, authorities said.
The accident occurred at around 7.00 pm on Monday at Chenzhou city on the north-south freeway connecting Beijing and Zhuhai cities, according to the traffic police.
The blaze engulfed three more vehicles, a police spokesperson said. Traffic on the Beijing-Zhuhai freeway was stopped temporarily because of the accident.
Vice Governor Liu Liwei led a group of officials to the site to investigate the cause of the accident, a spokesperson of the Communist Party of China for the Hunan Provincial Committee said. All the injured are being treated in a hospital.
