What the records say
- When
- 28 Oct 2018
- Kind
- Road accident
- Coordinates
- 30.82° N, 108.41° E
- Description
- motor vehicle accident in China
- Deaths
- 15
- Injured
- 1
- Cause
- hijacking, controversy
2018 Chongqing bus crash
Motor vehicle accident in China
On 28 October 2018 at 10:02 a.m., a bus plunged 50 metres (164 ft) off the Second Wanzhou Yangtze River Bridge into the Yangtze River in Wanzhou District, Chongqing, China. At least thirteen people died, and two are missing. Since 15 people were onboard at the time of the crash, it is believed that there were no survivors.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “中国重庆发生万州公交车坠进长江事件致2死15失蹤。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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