Three traffic collisions killed five people and injured three others in east China\'s Zhejiang Province early Thursday, local police said. The accidents, all of which took place around 12:30 a.m. on an expressway near the city of Wenzhou, involved a mini-bus, two trailer trucks and two heavy trucks, a Wenzhou police spokesman said. The accidents caused a traffic jam on the expressway, the spokesman said. Continuous rainy weather in the city was partly to blame for the accidents, he said.