BEIJING—The victims of a bus crash that killed 27 people and injured 20 more in China’s Guizhou Province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for COVID-related reasons, local media outlets reported on Sept. 18.
The crash occurred in the early hours of Sept. 18 on a highway in Sandu county, which is about 105 miles southeast of the provincial capital, Guiyang, according to police.
The bus, which overturned on a section of a highway that leads from Guiyang to Libo county, just south of Sandu, was carrying 47 people, the police statement noted. All 20 injured were being treated in a hospital, an official from the Sandu County government’s publicity department told Reuters on Sept. 18….