记者4日晚间从山西省运城市垣曲县委宣传部获悉，3日晚8时许，在山西闻垣高速发生的25车连撞交通事故中，目前已确认5人死亡，30人受伤。
Taiyuan (CNS) -- Five people were killed and 30 others injured in a chain collision involving 25 cars in northern China's Shanxi province on Sunday night, according to the local publicity department.
The accident occurred around 8 p.m. on a snow-covered section of the Wenxi-Yuanqu Highway in Yuanqu county. Four of the cars involved caught fire.
The slippery condition of the road was the main cause of the accident, the department said.
The injured have been hospitalized.
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