Beijing: At least 36 people were died in a fiery collision between a methanol tanker and a double-decker sleeper bus on a motorway in northern China on Sunday, state media said on Sunday.
Both vehicles caught fire and only three of the 39 people onboard the bus survived the crash, which occurred around 2:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported.
A total of 36 bodies were pulled from the debris and three people were taken to hospital.
The survivors were hospitalized, it said, but didn’t say what condition they were in.
The tanker had just returned to the highway after an early morning rest stop when it was apparently rear-ended by the bus close to the city of Yan’an in Shaanxi province, the official China News website said.
The bus had left Hohhot in Inner Mongolia at 5 p.m. Saturday and was headed south to Xi’an city, it said.
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