The accident took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying a total of 47 people 'flipped onto its side', Sandu county police said in a statement published on social media.
BEIJING, CHINA - A bus crash killed 27 people in southwest China on Sunday, police said, the country's deadliest road accident so far this year.
The accident happened in Qiannan prefecture -- a poor, remote and mountainous part of Guizhou, home to several ethnic minorities. "This feeling can't simply be represented by lighting a candle and saying RIP," read one Weibo post with more than 15,000 likes. Unverified photos circulating widely on social media Sunday showed a gold-coloured passenger bus, whose top is completely crumpled, being towed by a truck.
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