Police are yet to press charges against a bus driver who ran over and killed two students of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) yesterday, as they are still establishing the facts around the accident.
Jorakeh Noi police station was alerted to the incident which took place along the Chalong Krung Road in Lat Krabang district around 6.45am yesterday.
Police investigators found the bodies Chattiyakorn Suriwat, 20, and Areeya Suthatchote, 21, both students at KMITL's School of Science, under bus No 1013.
According to witnesses, the students riding a motorcycle had crossed a railway junction and made a right turn to enter the university when their motorcycle fell to the ground. The students had landed on the road as the bus, which was also heading to the university, came from behind and ran over them.
The girls were wedged under one of the wheels of the bus and died at the scene, according to Manit Karaket, a rescue volunteer from the Ruam Katanyu Foundation.
The rescuers struggled to remove the bodies.
The police said Somyot Iamsa-ard, the 44-year-old driver of the bus, waited at the scene for police. However, he was not charged immediately.
Police said they would not press charges against him until they finish running a test on the victims' bodies and on Mr Somyot's blood sample to establish if he was under the influence of alcohol.
Also, the officers were reviewing footage from the surveillance cameras in the area.
The bodies of the two students were undergoing forensic examination at the Police General Hospital.