BANGKOK (AFP): Six people were killed when a semi-trailer collided with a tourist van in a mountainous area near the Thai-Laos border, a Thai police chief said on Friday night.
The crash happened on Thursday afternoon on a road running between the Laotian provinces of Luang Namtha and Bokeo, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from a Thai border crossing.
Two tourist vans carrying a total of 20 passengers were travelling from the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai through Laos en route to the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.
Chiang Rai police chief Kriangsak Tongsiri said six people died in the collision.
"The 18-wheeler crashed... when the truck was making a turn along the curved path across the van's lane. A Laos van driver and five other Thai passengers are dead," he told AFP.
A Laotian hospital conducted post-mortem examinations and the bodies of the five Thai tourists were sent back across the border to their families. - AFP
