Five German tourists and their bus driver were killed Monday morning near China's Tianjin City when the bus rear-ended a broken down container truck stopped in the middle of a highway that connects Beijing and Shanghai. Fourteen more German tourists were injured. The bus was carrying nineteen Germans from a medical ambassador group, an interpreter and the bus driver. One survivor said that after hitting the container truck, the bus caught fire and was so deformed that the passengers were forced to break open windows to escape. Most of those injured suffered broken bones and burns.
