5 dead, 12 injured in China road accident

Five people died and 12 others were injured after a coach bus crashed into a pond in central China's Henan Province early Sunday, local authorities said.

The accident happened on an expressway in Gushi County around 6:20 a.m. when the bus carrying 55 passengers crashed the guardrail and fell into a pool nearby. Five people were killed and 12 were injured, according to the county government.

The bus carrying 55 passengers was travelling from Shangcheng County in Henan to Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province.

The injured have been sent to hospital. The cause of the accident in under investigation.