6 dead, 46 injured in China road accident

Six people died and 46 others were injured after a coach bus crashed into a pond in central China's Henan Province early Sunday, local authorities said.

The accident happened on an expressway in Gushi County around 6:21 a.m. when the bus carrying 55 passengers crashed the guardrail and fell into a pool nearby.

The bus carrying 55 passengers was travelling from Shangcheng County in Henan to Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province.

The injured have been sent to hospital. The cause of the accident in under investigation.