Four hurt after bus overturns, slides into Nakhon Si Thammarat canal, trapping passengers
Four passengers were injured when an omnibus flipped over amid rain and fell into a Nakhon Si Thammarat canal, trapping 40 passengers inside the vehicle.
Thung Yai police were notified of the incident at 4am on Wednesday and rushed to the scene with a team of volunteer rescuers.
At the scene they found several trapped passengers crying for help. Rescuers had to pry open the vehicle’s emergency door on the roof to bring them out one by one.
The four injured passengers were sent to hospital, while the others were taken to a nearby gas station to rest.
The driver told a reporter that the wet surface of the road caused the bus to slide towards the canal so he quickly turned the wheel in another direction, but the sudden movement made the vehicle flip over and fall into the canal.
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