UTTARADIT - Five passengers were killed and 25 hurt, 10 seriously, when an interprovincial bus plunged off a hillside road and into a deep ravine in this lower northern province on Tuesday morning.
The wreckage of the pink tour bus in the hillside gully after it plunged of the road in Uttaradit's Muang district, killing five passengers and injuring 25 others, on Tuesday morning. (Photo by @fm91trafficpro twitter)
The tour bus, carrying about 40 passengers, was travelling from Phrae to Bangkok. It ran off the winding down hill road on Doi Khao Pueng mountain and into a 50-metre deep ravine at Haiha village in tambon Ban Dan Nakham in Muang district about 10am on Tuesday, said Pol Lt Col Charoen Daengruang, deputy traffic chief at Muang police station.
The bus, operated by state-run Transport Co, was heading to Muang district of Uttaradit.
Emergency teams lifted the injured and dead from the wreckage. Five passengers were killed and 25 other people injured, 10 badly. The driver, whose name was not released, was among the injured.
The accident occurred on the road between Uttaradit’s Muang district and Phrae’s Den Chai district.
Police will question the bus driver when he is well enough.
Rescue workers at the scene of the bus crash in Uttaradit. (Photo by @fm91trafficpro twitter)