Helpers treating injured people after a bus-train deadly collision in Chacheongsao province, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday (Oct. 11, 2020). The tour bus was traveling with scores of passengers on board when it crossed the railway track during rain in Chacheongsao, where a train smashed into the vehicle. - AFP
BNAGKOK, Oct 11 (AFP): At least 17 passengers were killed and more than dozen injured on Sunday when a bus collided with a train in Thailand, officials said.
The bus passengers were on their way to a temple in Cha Choeng Sao province -- two hours from the capital Bangkok -- for a ceremony to mark the end of Buddhist Lent, said a district police chief.
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