8 killed, 2 hurt in van taking passengers to make meritRescuers arrive after a passenger van, carrying 10 people, overturned in Khon Kaen province early Saturday. (Photo: FM91 Trafficpro)Eight passengers were killed and two others injured when a passenger van taking them to make merit overturned in Khon Kaen province early Saturday, police said. Pol Col Preecha Kengsarikit, chief of Muang Khon Kaen police station, said on Saturday morning that the van with Nakhon Phanom licence plates overturned on a bypass road in tambon Phra Lap in Khon Kaen's Muang district. The vehicle, carrying nine female passengers plus a male driver, left Nakhon Phanom around 11pm and was heading for Chaiyaphum province for merit-making at nine temples, the officer said. They were taken to Khon Kaen Hospital.
