Source: Yahoo! News
Wire Service: AP
On January 3, 2005 the Associated Press reported, "A truck carrying Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims overturned on a mountain road in western China Monday, killing at least 54 people and injuring 41, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The accident happened around noon as the truck was traveling through the Qinghai region as it made its way back from Tibet's capital Lhasa, Xinhua said. The injured were sent to hospital where 29 of them were in serious condition, the report said. Most of the passengers were from Ganzi and Aba, ethnic Tibetan regions of the southwestern province of Sichuan, Xinhua said. It said they had been on a pilgrimage to Lhasa, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's highest figure."