9 dead, 43 injured in a fatal expressway accidents

Nine people were killed and another 43 injured Sunday in two accidents along an expressway in
Shanghai, local authorities said.
According to a Shanghai police press release, police received calls at around 6 am regarding an accident involving multiple vehicles in foggy weather.
In one accident, two people were killed at the scene when a tanker ran into four people who had got off a minibus to look further ahead.
Another accident occurred three kilometers away, when an engineering van was crushed by two heavy vehicles. Five people were killed in the van.
As of 5 pm, a further 45 were hospitalized. Two died at the hospital.