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Eight dead in Kanchanaburi tourist bus crash

Eight dead in Kanchanaburi tourist bus crash

EIGHT people died and 22 others were seriously injured in a tourist bus crash at a notorious black spot in Kanchanaburi's Si Sawat district yesterday.

Pol Lieutenant Anusorn Sudtho, an investigator at Si Sawat Police Station, said the accident occurred near Khao Tubtao.
Police and rescue teams transported the injured to Tha Kradan Hospital, Anusorn said.
The officer said the bus was off its wheels and seriously damaged. 
Many passengers were trapped inside the bus when rescue teams arrived and some were dead.
The bus crashed when returning to the W&H Film Company’s Samut Sakhon office after the conclusion of a seminar at a nearby resort.
Si Sawat sheriff Seree Khongyue said there were 36 passengers on the bus including the driver. 
The eight who died were killed instantly, while six passenger had suffered minor injuries, Seree said.
The injured passengers were |later shifted to the larger Paholpolpayuhasena Hospital in Kanchanaburi’s Muang district.
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