At least 21 people were killed - including 14 schoolchildren - and 25 injured in two car accidents in China on Monday, one of which involved over 100 vehicles, state press reported. The 14 children died when the three-wheeled vehicle in which they were travelling plunged off a road in central Hunan province early Monday, Xinhua news agency said.
In the second accident, seven people were killed and 15 injured during a pile-up involving over 100 vehicles on a fog-shrouded highway in south-west Guizhou province, Xinhua said in a separate report. Visibility was less than 50 metres (yards) on the road when the pile-up occurred. Following the accident, traffic on the highway backed up for 20 kilometres (12 miles), the report said.