12 killed in Buri Ram road accident
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A crowded BangkokSi Sa Ket tour bus collided with a pickup truck in Buri Ram's Nang Rong district, killing 12 people and injured 15 others Saturday morning.
Following the accident report at 9am Saturday, Nang Rong police and rescue workers went to the Ban Sing Intersection on Nang RongChamni Road to find the bus and the wrecked overturned pickup truck in the roadside ditch, inside of which police found 12 dead bodies and one seriously injured person.
The truck was carrying relatives to assist a funeral in Buri Ram’s Nong Hong district and the bus carried 50 passengers. The bus driver Somkiat Chutrakul, 34, and 13 bus passengers were injured. Police were investigating the cause of accident.
The Nation
