Rescue workers retrieve the body of the dead driver and assist the injured Chinese passengers out of the overturned tour bus, which ran off the road and hit a power pole in Phang-nga province on Friday morning. (Photo supplied by local rescue volunteers)PHANG-NGA: The driver was killed and 19 Chinese tourists hurt, four seriously, when their tour bus crashed into a power pole in Takua Thung district on Friday morning. The double-decker bus was carrying the tourists from a hotel in Krabi to Ban Tha Noon pier in Takua Thung district. It ran off the road and into a power pole on a straight section of tarmac near an intersection on Phetkasem Road in tambon Krasom around 8am, Thai media reported. Nineteen Chinese tourists were hurt, four of them seriously.

Source: Bangkok Post February 16, 2018 06:22 UTC