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1、The death toll in a school bus accident that occurred on Wednesday morning in the northwest province of Gansu has risen to 20 following the death of one child later Wednesday.16日(星期三)发生于甘肃省西北部的校车被撞事故的死亡名单目前已上 升至20人。The accident happened around 9:40 a.m. in Yulinzi township of Zhengning county, accor
2、ding to a statement from the bureau. The statement said five people died at the seene, including four children and their bus driver, while 15 others, their teacher included, were confirmed dead by the afternoon.据悉，事故于当日（16 H ）早9时40分发生于甘肃省庆阳市正宁县榆林 子镇。包括四名孩童和校车司机在内的5人当场死亡，其余15人于当日下午被 证实死亡。The statemen
3、t said another 44 children were injured in the accident and have been hospitalized Twelve of the injured are in a serious conditi on.据报道，校车上的其余44名受伤的儿童已被送往医院接受治疗。其中12 人伤势较重。The truck was carrying coal, the statement said. 事故发生时肇事卡车正在运煤。The bureau has blamed overloading for the accident, stating that
4、 thebus a van with nine seats “ was carrying 64 people.据悉,事故与校车超载有关只有9个座位的校车中当时共有乘客64名oLess than half a million yuan will be paid as compensation to each victim of an accident that an overloaded school minibus in Zhengning, Gansu Province crashed head-on with a truck on Wednesday, killing at least 2
5、1 people Each victim will be paid 436,000 yuan ($65,000) in compensation, which includes both personal insurance and aid benefits, a county official told China National Radio (CNR).Certain compensation packages have been delivered to the Chinalife In sura nee Compa ny Zhe ngning bran ch, as three de
6、ad and nine injured children were con firmed as having commercial insura nee packages with Chinalife Some Web users from Lanzhou, Gansu Province prayed for the 18 children killed in the accident in Lanzhou Thursday night, and after the death of a 5-year-old boy on the same day, local government offi
7、cials were sent to comfort grief-stricken family members of victimsThe accident caused more than 700 children to miss their classes, but they will retur n to school on Monday and teachi ng will be resumed under the supervision of staff from the local education bureau, CNR reported on Friday.Li Junga
8、ng, chairman of the Little Doctor Kindergarten in Zhengning county, was detained on Wednesday, while Fan Jungang, the driver of the truck that collided with the school bus, was also detained for causing the accident, according to the Zhengning government. Two deputy county chiefs and the heads of th
9、e countys education bureau and traffic department have been suspended from duty following the accident. Forty-four children were rushed to hospital immediately after the accident. Local authorities said two children are still in critical condition and 12 seriously injured.The school minibus had nine
10、 seats, but it was jammed with 62 children and two adults when it collided with the truck A preliminary investigation carried out by the local police showed that the bus was run by a kindergarten, and had its interior fittings adapted for the service who will blame for the cause of the accident? In
11、such situation, the government will do nothing but try to find the one who seems to be the person who need to be responsible for this disaster. The owner or the official in the local government? Actually, such phenomenon has been occurred for long time, but all the people ignore it.The accident caus
12、ed a great deal of outcry on the Chinese internet, with many posters criticizing the small amount of money spent on education Further criticism was leveled at the government when it was announced shortly after the crash that China would donate 23 school buses to Maced onia; many microbloqaers questi
13、oned the propriety of donating decent vehicles to a foreign country while subjecting Chinese children to substandard conditions.151It published a chart.In one colum n , the paper recoun ted recen t school-bus acciden ts in wh ich about 60 ch ildren had died. In an adjacen t colum n, it listed the su
14、ms that selected Ch in ese go ver n m en t departments had lavished on new cars in 20 10.No Ch inese citizen needed a pencil to connect the dots.Since the acciden t on Wednesday in Gansu Province, Ch in as Twitter-like m icroblogs and other social media sites have been alight with heartbreak and out
15、rage over the tragedyand they have been subseque ntly red-carded by gover n m e nt cen sor s for u n patriotic em otion .But there are few m ore devastating statem en ts about what gn aws at modern Ch in ese than the state-run newspaper s two columns of numbers.As Ch in a sped toward its new status
16、as the world ?s secon d largest econom y, the already yawn ing gap between the rich and poor grew wider. By sociologistscalculations, incom c inequality here is not that far from levels that h ave spurred social unrest in other nation s.But some things are not easily reduced to statistics. There is an argum ent, buttressed by the Gansu tragedy, that what tru ly eats at people here is not so much the rich-poor gap as the canyon t
