A traffic accident on Wednesday killed three people and injured 11 in Wuzhou, in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

A two-year-old child was killed instantly and two others died later despite emergency rescue efforts. Among the injured, four are in critical condition, according to local government sources.

The accident occurred at about 10:50 AM Wednesday at Tifu Village in Cangwu County, when a bus carrying 19 passengers collided with a truck.

On Tuesday, two people were killed in another accident that happened at about 4:00 AM on an expressway in east China's Anhui Province, local police said on Wednesday.

A truck loaded with plywood crashed into the central isolation bush at the Chuzhou section of the Hefei-Xuzhou expressway.

The accident crumpled the left side of the truck's driving cab. The truck driver and one of the two passengers onboard died soon after, local police said.

The third accident happened at about 7:10 PM Tuesday on the eastern section of the Heifei-Xuzhou expressway.

A sedan car headed towards Xuzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province skidded out of control and crashed through the divider.

It crashed into an oncoming crane traveling in the opposite direction. Three of the four people traveling in the car were killed instantly. The other died yesterday after rescue efforts were exhausted.

Investigations into the cause of these three accidents are underway.

(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2005)