Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh calls for probe into deadly road accident a week after dozens killed in Ha Long Bay boat disaster.Ten passengers have been killed, including two children, after a tour bus crashed in central Vietnam, authorities said, in the latest mass casualty accident after dozens were killed last weekend when a boat sank in the country’s top tourist site of Ha Long Bay.
The overnight sleeper bus was travelling on a national highway from the capital Hanoi to the central city of Da Nang when it veered off the road in the province of Ha Tinh on Friday, hitting roadside markers and overturning, authorities said in a statement.
The crash killed 10 people, including two children, all of whom were Vietnamese. Another 12 people were injured and taken to hospital with multiple injuries.
Five of those killed were domestic tourists travelling to Da Nang for holidays, state media said.
Da Nang, a former French colonial port city facing the South China Sea, has become a popular destination for both domestic and international visitors to the country.
“The bus overturned … I couldn’t sit up as my body and my hands were smashed into the side of the bed,” a passenger who survived the crash told the local Dan Tri news site.
Several of those killed and seriously injured had been occupying the sleeper bunks located towards the front of the bus. The surviving passenger said the deceased had “suffered from …
