China highway pileup kills 4, injures 7

YONGDENG, China, April 15 (UPI) -- Authorities blamed a traffic jam in front of a tollgate for a pileup that left four people dead and seven injured in China's Gansu province.

The chain-reaction crash Monday on Highway 312 in Yongdeng began when a cement truck plowed into a farm vehicle transporting a group of miners.

Traffic police told Xinhua the wreck involved a dozen vehicles, the news agency reported Tuesday.

Xinhua said the victims were all from the farm vehicle, which was described as a "motor tricycle."