Five killed in road accident in southern Mongolia

ULAN BATOR: Five people were killed in a traffic accident in the southern Mongolian province of Umnugovi on Wednesday evening, the country’s Traffic Police Department said Thursday.

The accident occurred when a car crashed into a truck on a paved road in the territory of Khankhongor soum (administrative subdivision) of the province, the police department said, adding that all five people in the car lost their lives immediately at the scene.

The cause of the accident is under investigation, the department said, urging drivers to comply with traffic rules to protect their own and others’ lives.

-Xinhua