At least four people were killed and 40 others injured yesterday in multiple pile-up accidents along an expressway in Shanghai as heavy smog engulfed several cities in China
A tourist wearing a face mask visits a park near the Forbidden City during heavy smog in Beijing. Pic/AFP
Beijing: At least four people were killed and 40 others injured yesterday in multiple pile-up accidents along an expressway in Shanghai as heavy smog engulfed several cities in China. Several road accidents were reported along the S32 expressway in Pudong New Area due to foggy weather.
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Hospitals in Pudong, Zhoupu and Shuguang cities received 44 people, Shanghai municipal health department said. Four of them died despite medical efforts, and among the other 40, nine were seriously injured, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Shanghai weather station at 6 am issued an orange alert on heavy fog, the second highest level in China’s weather alert system; it means a fog with visibility of less than 200 metres in the following six hours.
Heavy pollution continued to haunt China as a spell of smog, enveloping northeastern and northern parts, has affected more than one tenth of the country’s land.
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