CHANGSHA, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Five people, including two adults and three children, died after a private car overturned and tumbled into a canal in central China's Hunan Province Friday morning.
The accident happened at around 9 a.m. when a couple was driving three kids to kindergarten in Xiangyin County in the city of Yueyang. The car overturned at a junction and fell into a nearby canal. All five aboard died of drowning, according to local authority.
Police, firefighters, and officials from local education and health departments joined the rescue operation.