AT least 27 people have died after a bus overturned on a highway.

The vehicle was carrying 47 passengers when it crashed in China's mountainous Guizhou province.

Emergency services rushed to the scene in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Some 27 people were killed in the smash, police said.

And the other 20 passengers were injured.

It comes after 19 schoolkids were killed after a lorry smashed into a minibus on a South African highway.

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The tragedy happened in the Pongola area – around 300 kilometres north of Durban – on Friday afternoon.

Horrifying dashcam footage showed the moment the lorry overtook another truck on the two-lane highway before ploughing into the minibus full of schoolkids.

According to local media reports, the minibus tried to swerve out of the way of the oncoming lorry before it was crushed by the vehicle.

Authorities said 19 children – aged between five and 12 – died in the crash, along with three adults.

The kids were said to have been on their way home from school at the time.

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