At least 27 people killed and 20 injured after Covid quarantine bus overturns in horror crash
AT least 27 people have been killed after a Covid quarantine bus overturned on a motorway in China.
The vehicle, carrying 47 passengers, was on route to a quarantine facility when it crashed in the mountainous Guizhou province.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police said 27 people were tragically killed in the smash.
And the other 20 passengers were injured.
The crash sparked anger online from those critical of Beijing's "zero-Covid" policy.
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One user on the social media app WeChat said: "All of us are on that bus."
Another said: "When will all of this stop?"
It's not clear what caused the crash.
It comes after 19 schoolkids were killed after a lorry smashed into a minibus on a South African highway.
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The tragedy happened in the Pongola area - around 300 kilometres north of Durban - on Friday afternoon.
Horrifying dashcam footage showed the moment the lorry overtook another truck on the two-lane highway before ploughing into the minibus full of schoolkids.
According to local media reports, the minibus tried to swerve out of the way of the oncoming lorry before it was crushed by the vehicle.
Authorities said 19 children - aged between five and 12 - died in the crash, along with three adults.
The kids were said to have been on their way home from school at the time.