Ten killed, 12 injured in Vietnam sleeper bus road crash

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh calls for probe into deadly roadworthy mishap a week aft dozens killed successful Ha Long Bay vessel disaster.

Ten passengers person been killed, including 2 children, aft a circuit autobus crashed successful cardinal Vietnam, authorities said, successful the latest wide casualty mishap aft dozens were killed past play erstwhile a vessel sank successful the country’s apical tourer tract of Ha Long Bay.

The overnight sleeper autobus was travelling connected a nationalist road from the superior Hanoi to the cardinal metropolis of Da Nang erstwhile it veered disconnected the roadworthy successful the state of Ha Tinh connected Friday, hitting roadside markers and overturning, authorities said successful a statement.

The clang killed 10 people, including 2 children, each of whom were Vietnamese. Another 12 radical were injured and taken to infirmary with aggregate injuries.

Five of those killed were home tourists travelling to Da Nang for holidays, authorities media said.

Da Nang, a erstwhile French assemblage larboard metropolis facing the South China Sea, has go a fashionable destination for some home and planetary visitors to the country.

“The autobus overturned … I couldn’t beryllium up arsenic my assemblage and my hands were smashed into the broadside of the bed,” a rider who survived the clang told the section Dan Tri quality site.

Several of those killed and earnestly injured had been occupying the sleeper bunks located towards the beforehand of the bus. The surviving rider said the deceased had “suffered from the beardown impact”.

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called for an probe into the accident.

Traffic accidents are communal in Vietnam, with roadworthy crashes sidesplitting 5,024 radical successful the archetypal fractional of this year, down from 5,343 successful the aforesaid play of 2024, according to information from the government’s National Statistics Office.

The clang comes a week aft a tourer vessel capsized successful the UNESCO-recognised Ha Long Bay successful bluish Vietnam, sidesplitting 38 Vietnamese tourists and unit members.

Rescuers are inactive searching for 1 missing rider from the boat.

Only 10 radical survived what is present the country’s worst vessel mishap and which happened arsenic Typhoon Wipha approached the state past week.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies