Four die, 30 hurt in bus accident

Four die, 30 hurt in bus accident

Four passengers, two of them foreigners, were killed and more than 30 others injured, 10 seriously, when a Bangkok-bound tour bus from Tak's Mae Sot district overturned on the Mae Sot-Tak highway on Tuesday morning, police said.

Pol Lt-Col Boonsri Homnan, the duty officer of Phawo police station, said the accident occurred between kilometre markers 28-29 in tambon Phawo of Mae Sot district. The airconditioned bus is operated by the state Transport Company.

Four passengers, two of them foreigners, died on the spot.  They were a Norwegian tourist, aged about 40, and a worker holding a Myanmar passport, and a Thai man and a Thai woman.  Their names were not reported.

More than 30 passengers were injured, 10 of them seriously, Pol Lt-Col Boonsri said. They were admitted to hospitals.

Roughly half of the passengers were foreign tourists returning to Bangkok from a long weekend tour to Mae Sot.

One passenger said the bus was negotiating a sharp curve at high speed when the accident happened.

Police said accidently occur frequently at the same curve.

The accident caused a traffic jam on the highway.

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