16 killed in bus-oil tanker crash in Sumatra: Indonesian official

- A representational photo, taken in December 2025, showing rescuers carrying a survivor from the wreckage of a crashed bus in Semarang, Central Java, where 16 persons died. - FILE photo: EPA

JAKARTA: (AFP) A collision Wednesday (May 6) between a passenger bus and an oil tanker on Indonesia's Sumatra island killed 16 people and injured four, a disaster agency official told AFP.

"Fourteen passengers of the bus and two people from the oil tanker died" in the lunchtime crash in North Musi Rawas Regency, South Sumatra, official Hasbi Hasidqi said by telephone as local TV broadcast images of wreckage in flames.- AFP

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