Three people, including two tourists from Taiwan and a driver of Chinese mainland, were killed on Monday in a traffic accident in northeast China's Jilin Province.

Some 18 others, all from Taiwan, were injured in the accident.

The accident occurred at 9:40 a.m. at a highway of Wangqing County in Jilin while the 20-member tourism group was on its way from Jilin's neighboring province of Heilongjiang to Jilin.

(Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2006)