Five people including a one-year-old baby were killed when a multiple-purpose vehicle (MPV) were hit by an oil tanker Sunday afternoon on the national highway 210 inside Yanchuan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

The accident took place some three kilometers away from Qingjian in Yanchuan around 5:30 PM. Witnesses said MPV, with six people aboard, was seriously destroyed after being knocked away a dozen meters from the lane on the highway.

All the fatalities were from the MPV which carried six persons, the driver was injured in the accident, but the oil tanker driver was not.

The accident also caused the traffic to be suspended temporarily on Sunday.

Local traffic police are still working to establish cause of the accident.

(Xinhua News Agency March 19, 2007)