Beijing, Rajab 27, 1436, May 16, 2015, SPA -- The death toll from a bus crash in north-western China rose to 35 on Saturday, state media reported, according to dpa. Eleven passengers remain in hospital, five in critical condition, the Xinhua news agency reported. Twenty-five people died immediately when a bus carrying 46 plunged 30 metres into a ravine in Shaanxi province. Elsewhere on Friday, a van driver was fined for carrying 51 people in a vehicle designed to seat six. At least 38 people died in July 2014 when a lorry carrying flammable liquid collided with a long-distance bus in the southern province of Hunan. China ranked 44th deadliest out of 193 nations in a February 2014 study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in the US. The top three nations for traffic fatalities were Namibia at 45 deaths, Thailand 44 and Iran 38. --SPA 12:50 LOCAL TIME 09:50 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w