Romania sends planes for bus crash victims
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June 25, 2013, Tuesday
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ROMANIA is sending planes to bring home survivors of a bus crash that killed 18 Romanian tourists in central Montenegro.
A military aircraft arrived in Montenegro's capital Podgorica yesterday, where 28 injured passengers were hospitalized. Two more, medically equipped planes will be sent today, and transport of the injured will be organized depending on their condition, said health ministry official Raed Arafat.
The bus fell from a bridge over the Moraca river during a rainstorm and crashed some 40 meters into a ravine on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what caused the driver to lose control.
Police initially said that 13 people were killed, but the number of fatalities grew to 18 overnight.
"Unfortunately, we lost 18 people and that is a huge tragedy for Romania," the health ministry official Arafat said in Podgorica.
Romanian President Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Victor Ponta sent their condolences to the victims.
Altogether 29 people were injured, including a child who was on the bridge at the time of the crash, officials said. Four people remain in critical condition.
The winding road that leads from Serbia in the north through the Moraca canyon and then to the sea coast is notorious for traffic accidents because it is narrow, and slippery in wet weather.
A military aircraft arrived in Montenegro's capital Podgorica yesterday, where 28 injured passengers were hospitalized. Two more, medically equipped planes will be sent today, and transport of the injured will be organized depending on their condition, said health ministry official Raed Arafat.
The bus fell from a bridge over the Moraca river during a rainstorm and crashed some 40 meters into a ravine on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what caused the driver to lose control.
Police initially said that 13 people were killed, but the number of fatalities grew to 18 overnight.
"Unfortunately, we lost 18 people and that is a huge tragedy for Romania," the health ministry official Arafat said in Podgorica.
Romanian President Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Victor Ponta sent their condolences to the victims.
Altogether 29 people were injured, including a child who was on the bridge at the time of the crash, officials said. Four people remain in critical condition.
The winding road that leads from Serbia in the north through the Moraca canyon and then to the sea coast is notorious for traffic accidents because it is narrow, and slippery in wet weather.
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