Chiang Mai bus crash: 'Driver was speeding to escape earlier accident'


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 20 Dec 2015

The injured lying on the road waiting to be sent to the hospital in Chiang Mai

PETALING JAYA:  At least 13 Malaysian tourists were killed and many others injured when their bus hit a power pole and ran off a mountainous road in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district at 11.30am on Sunday.

Police said the bus was running on national highway No 118 through Ban Pang Fan village between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces in the North when the driver lost control at the 43th kilometre.

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