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Indonesia: Around 27 killed in a bus accident in Java Island
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JAKARTA, 11 March, 2021 (TON): At least 27 killed as a bus carrying pilgrims as the bus leaped down the gorge on Indonesia’s Java Island on Thursday.
Overnight, the rescue workers rescued the survivors from the wreckage in West Java’s Sumedang district on Wednesday.
When the bus fell, it had around 66 passengers including the junior high school students, the authorities said.
The fatalities are a mix of children and adults,” Bandung rescue agency official Mamang Fatmono told media.
Thirty-nine survived the misery, however, the bus driver and teenage passengers died.
The bus fell while returning to the town of Subang from a religious pilgrimage site in West Java.
The incidents of this kind are quite common in this region as the roads are narrow and the vehicles are not maintained often.
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