BEIJING, July 5 (Reuters) - Twenty-four people died on board a steel company bus that erupted in flames in eastern China, state media reported on Monday.
The shuttle bus, carrying night shift workers of a steel company in Wuxi in Jiangsu province, caught fire late on Sunday when passing through a tunnel, China’s national radio service said on its website (www.cnr.cn).
There were a total of 45 people on the bus, it added. Nineteen passengers were injured, the official Xinhua news agency said. The reports did not say what may have caused the fire.
