Forty-three people were injured when two buses collided in the northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, Lanzhou Morning Post reports.

The front of a bus is seriously damaged after it collided with another bus in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post]

The accident happened on the Wuwei Road at around 1 p.m., when a bus lost control and run headlong into another which was picking up passengers at a nearby bus station.

Three passengers were seriously injured, the report says. The collision also knocked down a tree and damaged the door of a nearby shop.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.

People gather at the scene of a bus collision accident in Lanzhou on September 7, 2008. [Photo: Lanzhou Morning Post]

(CRI September 8, 2008)