57 dead in China floods, including 2 kids on overloaded bus
Source: AP
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll in China's latest round of flooding has risen to at least 57, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged into a pond, authorities said Saturday.
At least 13 other people are missing in floods that have ravaged mountain districts of six provinces and autonomous regions, forcing tens of thousands from their homes and causing major damage to buildings and crops.
Among the dead were 16 people killed in the collapse of a nine-story building in the city of Guiyang following a landslide.
The Guangxi regional government said another 21 kindergarten students were sent to the hospital in the school bus accident on Friday, with three listed in serious condition. The bus was licensed to carry 11 people, but had a total of 26 on board.
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In this Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, residents move a motorcycle on a flooded street in Jiahui town of Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The death toll in China's latest round of flooding has risen to more than 50, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged into a pond, authorities said Saturday. (Zhou Hua/Xinhua via AP)
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