2023-12-05 06:28:01
BANGKOK (AP) — Fourteen people were killed and more than 30 injured in a bus crash in Thailand early Tuesday.
The accident occurred in Prachuap Khiri Khan province when the bus was traveling from the capital, Bangkok, to Songkhla province in the south. The vehicle was carrying 49 people when it went off the road and crashed into a tree near Hat Wanakorn National Park, a local police officer said. Prachuap Khiri Khan province lies on a stretch of coast between the Gulf of Thailand and Myanmar.
“We assume the driver might have fallen asleep,” said police colonel Weerapat Ketesa, superintendent of Huay Yang police station. Officers were waiting to receive the results of a blood test on the driver, who survived the crash, he added.
The police were still investigating what happened.
Most of the victims were Thai, although there were also some Burmese people, Weerapat said.
About 35 people were being treated in local hospitals, according to the Sawang Rungrueang Rescue Foundation.
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