Special team to investigate fatal highway accident in southwest China
16/9/2008 18:09
China's cabinet, the State Council, today, set up a special team to
investigate a bus accident which killed 51 people in the southwest Sichuan
Province.
The group,led by Liang Jiakun, deputy chief of the State
Administration of Work Safety, included officials from the ministries of
supervision, public security and transport. All-China Federation of Trade Unions
and the Sichuan Provincial Government will also be involved.
The Supreme
People's Procuratorate was also asked to be involved in the investigation.
On
Saturday afternoon, a bus veered off a road, plowed through a guardrail and
plunged into a 100-meter-deep valley in Nanjiang County. All 51 people aboard
were killed. Most of the riders were locals from Bazhong, a city in eastern
Sichuan.
Xian Guangzong, had been removed from the Communist Party of China
(CPC) chief of Bazhong Transport (Group) Co Ltd, which owned the bus. Xian also
had his CPC membership on the Bazhong City Communications Bureau committee taken
away.
He could suffer further punishment. Calls were made to have Xian's
posts as the bus company's board chairman and general manager removed. That's
according to a decision by the Bazhong City CPC committee yesterday.
Both Li
Zhongbin, Bazhong City's CPC chief, and Mayor Pu Bo
apologized to the public
through a local TV station for the fatal accident.
Xinhua
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