Runaway truck mows down six in Gansu county marketSix people are dead and 14 other injured, after a heavy-duty truck ran into a farm produce market today in Minxian county, Dingxi city in northwestern Gansu province. Sources with the local police said five of the injured suffered severe injuries, Xinhua reports. The accident happened at 5:45 a.m., when the driver identified as a villager in Xijiang town in the county drove the runaway truck into the farm produce fair, causing the casualties. The driver is now under police custody, and the cause of the incident is under investigation. The provincial emergency management department has sent a work group to the place for the investigation.

Source: The Standard October 05, 2020 05:37 UTC