BEIJING: Eighteen people were killed and two remain in hospital after a passenger van plunged into a lake in thick fog in central China early Friday.
State news agency Xinhua reported that the accident occurred at a road section near Miaoling Township, Ezhou City in Hubei Province around 6 a.m. (2200GMT Thursday) when a bus carrying 20 people plunged into the roadside lake.
The South China Morning Post reported the provincial government as saying that the van driver — one of the two people to survive — had been placed under investigation.
It added that all the passengers were aged between 60 and 70 years old.
