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Man maa gaa ud fra at disse laerere alle kom fra den/de samme skoler, og derfor maa der vaere en masse elever, der nu har mistet deres laerere. Frygteligt!


Bus plunge leaves 17 dead.

17 killed in bus crash The wreck of a tour bus which carried teachers from Chanthaburi, following an accident which killed 17 of its passengers in Chiang Mai's Doi Saket district yesterday. — SUBIN KHUENKAEW

Chiang Mai _ Seventeen people were killed and 33 injured in a road accident after a tour bus, taking teachers from Chanthaburi province on a study tour, took a bend too fast and plunged into a river in this northern province's Doi Saket district yesterday. Thirteen of the teachers were killed on the spot, while the other four died on the way to hospital.

The bus, owned by the Thikhamporn tour company, was taking the teachers from the Nongthakong Phitthayakarn school in Chanthaburi's Pong Nam Ron district to Chiang Mai and was travelling on Highway No 118 when the accident took place.

They were returning from a field trip in Chiang Rai.

Police believe the driver, Kamron Bunrat, 48, was not familiar with the curves.

The driver must have taken the sharp bend too quickly and that probably made him lose control of the vehicle, police said.

The bus skidded off the road and rolled into the Kuang river below near Pang Fan village in tambon Pamiang.

The roof of the bus was torn open and passengers on the upper deck of the double-decker were thrown out. The driver was detained for questioning.

Chiang Mai's Maharaj hospital has asked for urgent blood donations of A and O groups, which are currently in short supply.

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Og saa endnu en ulykke.

Crash kills nine in northern Thailand.

Bangkok (dpa) - A tour bus crashed head-on into a pickup truck, killing all eight people on the truck and one child who was hurled out of the bus by the impact, police and hospital sources said Monday.

The accident occurred on the Friendship Highway in Ban Pai, Khon Kaen, at about 11:10 p.m. Sunday night, police said.

The impact of the collision imbedded the pickup truck into the front of the bus.

All eight passengers on the truck died instantly, and one 9-year-old girl died en route to Sirinthorn Hospital in Khon Kaen, 380 kilometres north-east of Bangkok, after being hurled out of the bus by the impact, said Sirithorn nurse Sudarat Daosri.

"Both of the girl's parents were also injured in the crash and are currently undergoing treatment," said Daosri.

Deadly automobile accidents are common on the Friendship Highway, the main road linking Thailand's populous north-east region to the rest of the country.

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