Only a skeleton bus burned (users). Source: great river

The staff are on-site inspection

      According to CCTV reported, July 22nd at 4 pm, a Shandong Weihai to Hunan Changsha medium-sized bus fires in the Beijing Zhuhai Expressway Xinyang Minggang, passenger car badly burnt. The original 35 seat bus, the bus carrying 47 passengers, the local rescuers have saved 6 people from the field, 1 of them seriously. Preliminary estimates, all the other 41 deaths on board.

      At 4 this morning, the Beijing Zhuhai high speed 948 kilometers from north to south, near the Xinyang Gang, a car from Changsha to Weihai double decker bus was burning, after the accident, 6 people self rescue and escape, but have different degrees of burns, the injured have been rushed to a nearby hospital, emergency treatment related to the accident, the latest situation, we have to connect them immediately, this reporter Dai Jiling, Dai Ji Ling.

       Just received from Safety Management Bureau of Henan Province, the news is, this car at the time of departure from Weihai, to be his destination in Changsha, Henan territory, has no new one,The starting time, the car is a total of 35 passengers, followed by several passengers, prior to the incident, the car is a total of 47 passengers, in addition to the 6 successful escape passengers, that means, now the initial estimated 41 passengers were killed.

        As we saw at the scene, the bus had been burned lose one's beyond recognition, only the structure of a steel bar, and the whole of the combustion and explosion process is very short, according to the injured recalls, an explosion was heard from the back of the car goes, the car from the fire until finally can not open parking, only 160 meters away, in the 160 meters, the fire spread rapidly, some of the injured, some passengers will not escape, so has caused many casualties, preliminary expected first loaded the car is a 35 seat, if 47 people ride it, it is such a case there are serious overcrowding.

       In addition to escape the staff and relevant experts in the field to a reconnaissance preliminary, if on the mechanical failure of general vehicles, the fire should not be so fast, I have just introduced a detail, in the fire until the car was forced to stop, a total of only 160 meters, this it means that the car, is likely to carry the contraband articles inflammable and explosive, Henan province is now the director of safety in production of the vice governor had arrived at the scene, the on-site command to rescue work, at the same time, the Ministry of public security has also sent a group of experts are on the way.

Henan province is also actively contact in Shandong Province, and the relevant departments of Weihai City, is also rushed to the scene, now DNA sampling site was, Henan province said, no matter how now, first of all to the rehabilitation and other related work to do everything, at the same time to ensure that the north and south through the Hong Kong and Macao its arteries.

      We have also seen at the scene of the accident, the car, it has brake in belt this side, now the whole can execute bicycle lane, Zi adorable.

Moderator: in addition to the number of casualties, the 47 men, including the 6 have to escape, they generally are what kind of person?

Dai Jiling: because now the injured, is generally moderate and severe burn, so they cannot provide more information, we preliminarily understood, this is the car starting from Shandong to Weihai, Henan to the territory before, no new passengers, should be said that most of them are from Shandong by bus to go to this part of passengers Changsha. Near a bus blaze.
      According to the on-site rescue the director of Henan Provincial Work Safety Supervision Bureau Zhang Guohui introduction, after preliminary investigation, the accident occurred, the bus was carrying 47 passengers, in addition to 6 local emergency rescue, the remaining 41 deaths. According to another survey, the bus load for the number of 35 people, is a serious overcrowding. But the cause of the fire remains unknown.
      According to the Xinyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, 6 people rescued, 1 people injured, and has been arranged for 159 hospitals in Zhumadian. According to hospital doctor introduction, seriously injured in imminent danger. Including moderate burn the driver, the remaining 5 of the wounded in the Xinyang Central Hospital for treatment.
      It is understood, this car license plate number for the K08596 Lu, is a double decker sleeper bus from Weihai to Changsha. Reporters at the scene, car burned to the skeleton, and the 3 lane is closed, leaving only an emergency parking lane, traffic order, no traffic jam.
     According to introduction, body was burned to charcoal accident has been the Civil Affairs Department removed, incineration residues bus other items has been collected the relevant departments, and can not distinguish the body, only the identity verification by DNA to identify.