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A total of 16 people were killed and 66 others injured in five multi-vehicle rear-end collisions on the Xuchang-Guangzhou Highway in Changsha City, central China's Hunan Province, the local highway traffic police department said in a statement on Sunday.
The rear-end collisions, involving a total of 49 vehicles, happened within about 10 minutes on Saturday at around 5 p.m. on the Hunan section of the highway. All the injured people have been sent to hospitals, among them eight were seriously injured but are in a stable condition.
The Ministry of Emergency Management has sent a working team to the site to guide the handling of the accidents. An investigation into the matter and the settlement of the aftermath are currently underway.
(With input from Xinhua News Agency)