Six passengers were killed and 28 others injured after a passenger bus overturned in central China's Hubei Province Sunday, the local publicity authority said.

A 35-seat bus carrying 34 people overturned after hitting an agricultural vehicle parking at a turn of a mountainous road in Wufeng County at 1:50 p.m., according to the county's publicity department.

Onboard the bus were two drivers, two tour guides and 30 company employees.

No more information was available so far.

Officials with the local public security and work safety authorities were investigating the accident.

(Xinhua News Agency April 27, 2009)