In China, seventeen people have been killed and four others injured in a multiple-vehicle accident in Jiangxi Province. According to police, the accident took place this morning when a semi-trailer truck rear-ended another and tumbled over and skidded into the opposite lane on the Shanghai-Kunming expressway. The truck was then smashed into by a lorry, which rolled after the impact and slammed into a passenger mini-bus. The mini-bus was overloaded with 13 people on board, including four children. Police said twelve people, including nine in the mini-bus, died at the spot and five others died in hospital. Police are investigating the accident.