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Swedes and Britons in Thai bus crash
Swedes and Britons in Thai bus crash
BANGKOK: -- At least 18 foreigners was injured in a bus crash in Thailand at around 11pm on Saturday evening. A total of 18 foreigners were injured, most of them Swedes. All of the injured have been transported to hospital and at least one has been operated.
The accident happened about one hour from Bangkok on the way to Krabi. The Bangkok-Krabi shuttle bus slided off the road, rammed a tree and turned over.
- "Most of the injured tourists on board were Swedish and several Britons was injured as well", says Maja Nilsson at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs press unit to aftonbladet.se.
The British and Swedish embassies have set up a crise center for the involved tourists, most of them adult backpackers.
More info will follow.
--Aftonbladet.se / Agencies
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