AFP | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
A freeway pile-up in central China has killed 16 individuals and injured dozens, authorities mentioned Sunday, with footage aired on native media displaying burning vans and smashed automobiles.
Almost 50 automobiles had been concerned in a number of collisions alongside a freeway in Hunan province throughout the span of 10 minutes on Saturday night, “with some automobiles catching on hearth”, native site visitors police mentioned in an announcement.
Footage republished on-line by the state-owned Folks’s Each day confirmed a number of burning vans bearing the logos of supply corporations, crushed and overturned automobiles, and a darkish cloud of smoke rising from the crashes.
Visitors police mentioned 16 individuals had been killed within the pile-up, together with seven in a single collision, whereas 66 others had been injured.
“The injured had been promptly despatched to hospital for thorough remedy, together with eight whose accidents had been comparatively extreme, whose important indicators are presently steady,” the site visitors police mentioned.
Folks’s Each day mentioned the pile-up came about within the provincial capital Changsha, and that greater than 180 rescue employees had been dispatched to the scene on Saturday.
China’s emergency administration ministry on Sunday mentioned it had referred to as for an investigation into the reason for the accident.