15 dead, 28 hurt in China bus crash

GUIYANG, China, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A bus crash in southwest China's Guizhou province Monday killed 15 people died and injured 28, seven of them critically, officials said.

Ten passengers were hospitalized, a spokesman with the provincial work safety administration told Xinhua, the state-run Chinese news agency.

The accident occurred around 7 a.m. when a long-distance sleeper bus carrying 46 passengers, including 18- and 10-month-old babies, veered off a highway in Yanhe County and then fell down a 260-foot hill.

Officials said the bus, which is owned by a public transport company in Guizhou, was traveling from Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong Province, to Yanhe, a rural county to the northeast, Xinhua reported.