A tour bus plunged into a Tibetan valley yesterday after an accident involving two vehicles, killing 44 people and injuring 11, China´s official news agency Xinhua reported.
“The 55-seat bus carrying 50 people fell off a 10-metre-plus-high cliff after crashing into a sports utility vehicle and a pick-up truck,” the report said, citing the regional government.
Another five people were in the other vehicles in the accident which happened at around 4:25 pm (0825 GMT) in Nyemo County, west of the capital Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region which is governed by China.
The bus passengers were mainly tourists from eastern China.