BEIJING — A bus overturned on a highway in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, killing 22 people and injuring 38, state media said Wednesday.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the accident occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday night in Kashgar prefecture. It said all of the injured were hospitalized and the cause of the accident was being investigated.
China has a high road fatality rate, and traffic accidents killed more than 62,000 people in the country in 2011. Inexperienced drivers and overloaded buses and trucks are common.
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