Four people died and two were injured Wednesday when a truck ran into a public toilet block in northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities said Thursday, Xinhua reported.
The driver lost control of the truck due to a brake failure and hit the block on a corner of an intersection in Chengguan district, in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, killing four people instantly, said Luo Junmin, spokesman for the municipal traffic police.
Two women aged 64 and 69 were hit by packages of soft drinks that fell off the truck. They were stable in hospital, said Xu Yun, deputy head of the Lanzhou No.2 People's Hospital.
The identity of the dead was not immediately known.
The police are continuing to investigate the accident.
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