Truck crashes into funeral home
19 dead in serious traffic accident in eastern China
According to a media report, 19 people died in a serious traffic accident in eastern China. 20 other people were injured, the state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday.
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A traffic accident in eastern China claimed 19 lives.
A truck crashed into a queue of visitors on the street in front of a crematorium in southeast China, killing 19 people. Another 20 were injured, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The accident happened shortly after midnight in Taoling Village, southeast of Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province.
Because of the heavy rush at the crematorium, relatives and friends waited outside and had set up offerings for the dead on the side of the road, residents told the state agency. They would have wanted to be present at the cremation the next morning. The cause of the accident is being investigated, it said. Many of the dead were from Taoling Village.
It was not mentioned whether the cremation facility, like so many others in the current massive corona wave in China, was overloaded with the high number of Covid 19 victims. State media have been reporting long waiting times, traffic jams and queues in front of crematoria for weeks because the large number of bodies cannot be cremated quickly enough. (SDA/AFP/chs)