32 tourists injured in Macau bus accident
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THIRTY-TWO tourists from the Chinese mainland were injured, three seriously, when a tour bus crashed into a building in Macau yesterday.
The driver was arrested for suspected dangerous driving, the special administrative region’s authorities said.
Macau Health Bureau said 32 people were injured — three of them in serious condition.
A 46-year-old woman sustained skull fracture and was still unconscious after surgery. Eleven injured tourists have been treated and discharged from the hospital.
According to Macau Public Security Police Force, the accident happened when the bus stopped down slope in a street close to the Ruins of St. Paul, one of Macau’s famous tourist attractions.
A white van rear-ended the bus and the bus driver got off to check the situation.
The bus suddenly moved down through the slope without the driver and crashed into a clinic beside the road.
Both the bus and the clinic were severely damaged.
PSPF Acting Deputy Commissioner Wong Chi Fai said initial investigation report showed that the driver failed to pull the handbrake before getting off the bus.
The driver, a Macau citizen, was arrested for suspected dangerous driving.
According to Macau’s tourism authorities, the injured are all from a 44-member tourist group from Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.
With a one-day itinerary in Macau, the group had arrived in the morning and planned to leave Macau in the afternoon.
Some of the members were from Guangdong, Shaanxi, Hunan and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing City.
Tourism authorities are in touch with the tourist agencies and are arranging for family members to visit the injured.
Macau SAR Chief Executive Chui Sai On visited the injured tourists in Kiang Wu Hospital yesterday afternoon. He said the SAR government will spare no effort to treat the injured and help their families.
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