China bus crash death toll rises to 35

A bus carrying 46 people plunged 30 metres into a ravine in China's Shaanxi province.

A firefighter searches in the overturned bus after it was hit by a truck on Xiarong (Xiamen-Chengdu) Expressway near Ganzhou city. (AAP) Source: Imaginechina

The death toll from a bus crash in north-western China has risen to 35, state media have reported.

Twenty-five people died immediately when a bus carrying 46 plunged 30 metres into a ravine in Shaanxi province.

Eleven passengers remain in hospital, five in critical condition, the Xinhua news agency says.