Article updated: 10/1/2012 8:04 AM

Fiery crash in China kills 5 Germans, 1 Chinese

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A tourist bus is engulfed in flames on an expressway near Tianjin, China, Monday. Five Germans and a Chinese citizen were killed when the bus burst into flames after hitting the back of a truck, the Xinhua News Agency said.

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A bus carrying many German tourists hit the back of a truck and burst into flames Monday on an expressway in northern China, killing five Germans and a Chinese citizen, state media reported. The accident happened near Tianjin on an expressway that links that port city with the capital Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The bus was engulfed in flames and black smoke, and was a charred skeleton of metal by the time the fire was out.