Twenty-seven people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus taking them to a Covid quarantine facility crashed Sunday in Southwest China's Guizhou province, according to official statements and Caixin interviews.

The bus carrying the 47 people overturned early Sunday morning on a highway in the Sandu Shui autonomous county, police said in a statement (link in Chinese). The highway connects the provincial capital Guiyang with Libo county.