Heavy accident road toll in Anhui

Eleven people have been killed and nine injured in two separate road accidents in east China’s Anhui Province.

A 23-vehicle pile-up on an expressway in Anhui left five people dead and four others injured early yesterday morning. The pile-up occurred at 5:12am on the Anqing section of the Yuexi-Wuhan Expressway linking the southwest part of Anhui with Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, according to traffic police from the city of Anqing.

Four people were killed immediately while one died in hospital. The four injured are in a stable condition.

Another road accident occurred at 8:11am in Lujiang County in Hefei, capital of Anhui. Six people were killed and five others were injured after a minibus collided with a car on a highway in the county.

There has been snow and rain in the province.

(Xinhua)