30 killed as China bus plunges over cliff
Thirty people died Friday when a bus apparently plunged off a cliff in China, officials said, in the latest deadly traffic incident in the country, AFP reports.
The accident in Chunhua county, in the northern province of Shaanxi, killed 25 people on the scene with another five dying later from their injuries, local authorities said on a verified microblog account.
Pictures posted online, which could not be immediately verified, showed a white bus on its side at the bottom of a steep, partially-forested red cliff.
Other bus passengers were being treated for injuries and the cause of the crash was being investigated, county authorities said.