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On November 15, a traffic accident occurred in Bowang Town, Bowang District, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, in which a small ordinary passenger car collided with a heavy dump truck, killing eight people and injuring eight others. The reporter learned from witnesses at the scene that most of the dead and injured were women, who were short-term workers from Bowang Town to Nanjing Lukou Logistics Park, and they were returning home from Lukou at the time of the incident.
A witness at the scene, Mr. Xia, told reporters that the truck hit the side of the bus head-on. Video footage at the scene showed that the car accident was very tragic, the bus was badly deformed, and the roof of the car was stuck in the head of the truck. Mr. Xia told reporters that most of the dead and injured were women, and they were temporary workers in nearby villages and towns who went to Nanjing Lukou Logistics Park to do express delivery sorting and unloading, most of whom were over 50 years old.
Mr. Xia introduced that this car departed from Bowang Town to Lukou Logistics Park in the morning, returned from the Logistics Park in the evening, and happened to be on the way back on the 15th. Mr. Xia's mother-in-law also took this bus to lukou logistics park to work on the same day, and when she returned, her mother-in-law got off the train first, and a car accident occurred shortly after she got off the bus.
Mr. Xia told reporters that due to the recent double eleven logistics park is relatively busy, the demand for short-term workers is relatively large, generally labor service companies in the township to find agents, and then by the agent to the villages to find people to work, the recent double eleven salary is 220 yuan a day, before it was 160 yuan a day. "They work 12 hours a day, counting the round-trip ride and waiting for people, it takes almost 15 hours." My mother-in-law usually leaves at 5 a.m. and comes back at 9 p.m. ”
According to the staff of the funeral home in Dangtu County, Ma'anshan City, the funeral home received a total of 7 deceased, including one male deceased and another deceased being sent to another funeral home. According to the staff of Ma'anshan Central Hospital, Municipal Seventeen Ye Hospital, Municipal People's Hospital and other hospitals, these hospitals have received treatment for the injured, and some have entered the ICU for treatment.
At 5:23 a.m. on November 16, the official microblog of the traffic police brigade of the Ma'anshan Municipal Public Security Bureau released a police information circular saying that at about 22:11 on November 15, 2021, at the intersection of Qinling Avenue and Xinhe West Road in Bowang Town, Bowang District, Ma'anshan City, a small ordinary passenger car collided with a heavy dump truck, killing 8 people and injuring 8 people. At present, the injured are being treated and are not in danger of life.
According to the "Anhui Release" news, Zheng Zhajie, secretary of the Anhui Provincial CPC Committee, issued instructions calling for all-out efforts to treat the wounded, do a good job in the aftermath of the victims, find out the cause of the accident as soon as possible, and entrust the principal responsible comrades of the Ma'anshan Municipal CPC Committee to visit and comfort the injured and the families of the victims, and ask provincial and municipal medical experts to do a good job in the rescue and treatment of the injured. (Comprehensive Beijing Youth Daily, Jimu News, "Anhui Release")