(http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=david-arnott92D3DE52-ED80-E9FE-54E4-9475706EF313.jpg&width=900)Peng Jianfeng / ReutersA tourist bus, seen through the window of a vehicle, catches fire after crashing with a truck on the Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu Expressway in Tianjin, China on October 1, 2012. China holiday crash kills five Germans as millions take to roads
Reuters reports — A bus struck a container truck near Beijing and burst into flames on Monday (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49237008#.UGlx3E3Afgc), killing five German tourists and a Chinese driver as motorists jammed roads at the start of a week-long holiday.
Fourteen people were injured in the mid-morning accident as the bus on the road linking the capital to the neighboring city of Tianjin ran into the back of the truck, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Police were investigating the cause.
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