Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requires probe into lethal street accident every week after dozens killed in Ha Lengthy Bay boat catastrophe.
Ten passengers have been killed, together with two youngsters, after a tour bus crashed in central Vietnam, authorities mentioned, within the newest mass casualty accident after dozens have been killed final weekend when a ship sank within the nation’s prime vacationer web site of Ha Lengthy Bay.
The in a single day sleeper bus was travelling on a nationwide freeway from the capital Hanoi to the central metropolis of Da Nang when it veered off the street within the province of Ha Tinh on Friday, hitting roadside markers and overturning, authorities mentioned in a press release.
The crash killed 10 individuals, together with two youngsters, all of whom have been Vietnamese. One other 12 individuals have been injured and brought to hospital with a number of accidents.
5 of these killed have been home vacationers travelling to Da Nang for holidays, state media mentioned.
Da Nang, a former French colonial port metropolis dealing with the South China Sea, has turn out to be a preferred vacation spot for each home and worldwide guests to the nation.
“The bus overturned … I couldn’t sit up as my physique and my arms have been smashed into the facet of the mattress,” a passenger who survived the crash instructed the native Dan Tri information web site.
A number of of these killed and critically injured had been occupying the sleeper bunks positioned in the direction of the entrance of the bus. The surviving passenger mentioned the deceased had “suffered from the sturdy affect”.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has referred to as for an investigation into the accident.
Visitors accidents are widespread in Vietnam, with street crashes killing 5,024 individuals within the first half of this yr, down from 5,343 in the identical interval of 2024, based on knowledge from the federal government’s Nationwide Statistics Workplace.
The crash comes every week after a vacationer boat capsized within the UNESCO-recognised Ha Lengthy Bay in northern Vietnam, killing 38 Vietnamese vacationers and crew members.
Rescuers are nonetheless trying to find one lacking passenger from the boat.
Solely 10 individuals survived what’s now the nation’s worst boat accident and which occurred as Hurricane Wipha approached the nation final week.
