Water shortages hit eastern China

This picture taken on January 28, 2011 shows a Chinese farmer holding dried vegetable seedlings at his drought-striken fields in Zhouping, east China's Shandong province.Jiangxi Province has received half its normal rainfall in 2011The province is in the midst of a months-long drought

Beijing (CNN) -- Drinking water is in short supply in parts of eastern China where a months-long drought has reservoirs tapped, state-run media reported.

More than 230,000 people -- mostly in rural areas of Jiangxi Province -- are bearing the brunt of the water shortage, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said Tuesday.

For the first four months of 2011, the province has received about half its normal rainfall, the agency said.

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Police say bus bomb kills 3 in eastern Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb has hit a passenger bus in eastern Pakistan, killing at least three people and wounding several others.

Police official Rashid Ahmed says the attack happened Saturday near Kharian, a garrison town about 75 miles southeast of the capital, Islamabad.

The bus was en route to Kharian from the nearby city of Gujrat.

The attack comes a day after a double suicide bombing in the country's northwest killed 87 people. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack and said it was revenge for the May 2 U.S. raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.

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SUV accident kills 5 in eastern North Carolina

By Rick Martin, CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTSVictims include boyfriend, girlfriend and three small childrenState trooper says driver was speedingAccident occurred on a gravel road in a national forest, trooper says (CNN) -- A speeding driver traveling through Croatan National Forest in eastern North Carolina Sunday evening lost control of her SUV which overturned killing herself, another adult passenger and three children, a state highway patrol trooper told CNN.

The accident occurred shortly before 6:00 p.m., according to North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper R.A. Woods. Police identified the driver as Maria Gonzales, 24, and the passengers as Abdil Salis, 24; Alexander Gomez, 6; Adyelis Salgonzalez, 2; and four-month-old Abdil Salis, Jr.

The state trooper said the two youngest victims were found in their child restraints.

Woods said Gonzales was driving a 1996 Chevy Blazer on a gravel road in the Craven County part of the national forest when she lost control of the vehicle. The SUV, he said, ran off the road and overturned in a canal. Woods said "the driver was driving too fast and lost control."

"We've had fatal accidents on this stretch of the road before, but this is the first time I've run across a family killed at one time," said Woods.

Woods said the adults traveling in the vehicle were boyfriend and girlfriend. He did not say how all five victims were related to each other.

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