BEIJING: Eleven young children died yesterday when the overloaded van they were travelling in plunged into a pond in east China's Jiangxi province, state press and a rights group said.
The accident happened as the van was taking the children to school and all of the 11 victims were between four and six years old, the Henan Business Daily reported. It said that four other children, a teacher and the driver survived the crash.
The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy said in a statement that cited no sources that the van was made to carry seven people but was overloaded with 17. The human rights group also said it took 70 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
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