7 dead, 11 injured in east China road accident

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Rescuers launch rescue work on the Shenhai Highway (Shenyang-Haikou Highway), Quanzhou City, southeast China`s Fujian Province, March 16, 2011. Seven people were left dead and 11 others injured in a traffic accident occured here at 1 a.m. of March 16, 2011. (Xinhua/Yan Jie)

FUZHOU, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Seven people died at the scene and 11 others were injured when a bus crashed into a car on an expressway in east China`s Fujian Province early Wednesday, police said.

The bus, carrying 46 people, was en route from Putian to Zhangzhou when it crashed into a car and overturned on an interprovincial expressway in Quanzhou City at around 1 a.m., said a traffic police officer in Quanzhou.

He did not identify the victims.

The cause of the accident is under investigation, he said.