The passenger bus skidded out at around 8am after its back tyre exploded when it braked sharply to avoid a motorbike in the Mekong Delta province. The bus then plunged onto Thanh Binh pier in Binh My Commune, Chau Phu District, breaking a wooden ferry boat then anchored at the pier.
According to eyewitnesses, the bus and ferry then floated hundreds of meters offshore until passengers broke bus windows to escape.
Both vehicles then sunk.
A nearby fishing boat and workers at the pier rushed to save the passangers before the province police arrived.
Initial investigations by the An Giang Police showed that the driver’s assistant, a local named Phong, was killed in the heavy collision between the bus and the ferry boat. The missing include a woman and a six-year-old child, police said.
Rescue forces are scouring for the victims.
Reported by Duc Vinh |
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