Four people were killed and nine injured in a car accident Wednesday morning on a road near Bailong village in Yuzhou city, Central China's Henan province, according to a local official announcement on Wednesday afternoon.

A minibus was carrying students from a nearby kindergarten when the accident happened, reported Beijing News. It collided with a truck at 7:56 am on the S237 road, the public security bureau in Yuzhou said.

The injured were taken to a hospital and are in stable condition. The investigation on the cause of the accident is underway.