Bus crash kills seven fans on way to football match
- Published: 12/06/2011 at 04:10 AM
- Newspaper section: News
LOP BURI : A bus carrying fans of a Chiang Rai football team has crashed on its way to a match in Buri Ram, leaving seven dead and more than 40 others injured.
SOMBRE START: Spectators and players of Buriram PEA and Chiang Rai United FC observe a minute’s silence to mourn the death of fans of the Chiang Rai team who died in a bus accident in Lop Buri yesterday. The fans were on their way to watch the match in Buri Ram.
The tragedy, however, did not prevent the game taking place between Chiang Rai United FC and Buriram PEA FC, which unofficially opened the latter's new 24,000-capacity stadium worth 400 million baht.
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