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AFP, Beijing

Twenty-five people, mostly youth, died when a bus overturned in China's northwest Xinjiang region, state media said Wednesday.

Seventeen people died at the scene of Tuesday's accident, while eight others later succumbed to their injuries in an area hospital, Xinhua news agency reported.

The five remaining people on the bus were receiving medical treatment. The bus overturned on a remote mountain road leading to Artux city. Many of the passengers were high school students from Han Chinese families as well as the Kirgiz ethnic minority, Xinhua said.