Padang, Indonesia: a bus carrying 34 passengers rejected out of control on a downhill road and overthrowed in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra on Tuesday, May 6, killing at least 12 people and leaving others injured, police announced.
The Inter-Province’s bus was on their way to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, of Medan in the northern province of Sumatra when its brakes apparently misunderstood near a bus station in the city of Padang of West Sumatra, said Reza President Akbar Sidiq, director of the West Sumatra police.
He said the police were still investigating the cause of the accident, but the survivors told the authorities that the driver had lost control of the vehicle in an area with a number of steep hills in Padang after the brakes work badly.
The 12 bodies, including those of two children, were mainly pinned under the overturned bus, said Sidiq. All the victims, including 23 people injured, were taken to two neighboring hospitals, he said.
Thirteen of the injured were treated for serious injuries, said Sidiq. The driver was among those in critical condition.
