18 killed in Thai bus crash
22 March 2018 4:46 PM GMT
Bangkok: At least 18 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bus travelling in northeastern Thailand veered off the road and smashed into a tree, authorities said on Thursday.
The accident occured Wednesday evening in Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasima province with the double decker bus carrying around 50 people returning home from a holiday. "There are 18 people killed, of these 12 women and six men including one boy," Suthep Ruenthawil, chief of the Nakhon Ratchasima provincial disaster prevention and mitigation unit said.
He added that 28 people are receiving treatment for injuries.
Photos in local media of the accident's aftermath showed part of the bus lying on its side and officials standing beside a row of body bags. Suthep said the bus driver lost control while the vehicle was going downhill, before it veered off the road and jumped a traffic island then smashed into a large tree.
"The bus was torn into two parts," he said.
Thailand has the second-highest rate of traffic fatalities in the world after Libya, according to World Health Organization statistics.
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