Update | 35 dead as bus plunges off a 30-metre-deep ravine in China
Further thirteen are injured in latest deadly traffic accident to hit the country
Thirty-five people died yesterday when a bus plunged off a cliff in China, in the latest deadly traffic incident in the country.
Twenty-five people were killed instantly when the bus fell in Shaanxi province. Ten others died in a hospital, the propaganda office of Chunhua county said in a statement.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the bus was carrying 46 passengers and that it fell into a ravine more than 30 metres deep near a forest park on Friday afternoon.
There was no word on the cause of the accident, and authorities said they were investigating.
Pictures posted online, which could not be immediately verified, showed a white bus on its side at the bottom of a steep, partially-forested red cliff.
The injured were being treated and the cause of the crash was being investigated, said county authorities, who initially put the toll at 30.