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(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-02-20 15:47

GUANGZHOU - Five people were killed and one injured in a road accident in South 皇冠体育app's Guangdong province, local police said on Sunday.

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The accident took place at midnight Saturday at the k46 section of the freeway linking Foshan and Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, when a sedan heading to Guangzhou knocked down rail fence and bumped into an oncoming bus, according to the police.

Three men and two women aboard the sedan were killed instantly while a four-year-old girl on the same vehicle survived.

The girl was hospitalized in a Foshan hospital.

Police are investigating the cause of the accident.