Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requires probe into lethal highway accident per week after dozens killed in Ha Lengthy Bay boat catastrophe.
Ten passengers have been killed, together with two kids, after a tour bus crashed in central Vietnam, authorities mentioned, within the newest mass casualty accident after dozens were killed last weekend when a boat sank within the nation’s prime vacationer website 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 highway within the province of Ha Tinh on Friday, hitting roadside markers and overturning, authorities mentioned in an announcement.
The crash killed 10 folks, together with two kids, all of whom had been Vietnamese. One other 12 folks had been injured and brought to hospital with a number of accidents.
5 of these killed had 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 develop into a well-liked vacation spot for each home and worldwide guests to the nation.
“The bus overturned … I couldn’t sit up as my physique and my palms had been smashed into the aspect of the mattress,” a passenger who survived the crash informed the native Dan Tri information website.
A number of of these killed and severely injured had been occupying the sleeper bunks situated in the direction of the entrance of the bus. The surviving passenger mentioned the deceased had “suffered from the robust influence”.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has referred to as for an investigation into the accident.
Visitors accidents are frequent in Vietnam, with highway crashes killing 5,024 folks within the first half of this yr, down from 5,343 in the identical interval of 2024, in line with knowledge from the federal government’s Nationwide Statistics Workplace.
The crash comes per 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 folks survived what’s now the nation’s worst boat accident and which occurred as Typhoon Wipha approached the nation final week.
