Six Burmese workers are dead and 44 injured – 28 seriously – after a double-decker bus crashed down a ravine in Tak province in Thailand’s north west late on Monday night.
Speeding or brake failure has been blamed.
The accident happened on a hill known as Doi Ruak in Muang district just before 11pm.
Driver Phisit Thanathakphasit, 40, was taking about 50 workers from the border town of Mae Sot to Chacherngsao.
He said that he tried to slow the bus by brushing against the roadside barrier but he could not manage it and the bus crossed the barrier and hurtled 5 metres down a roadside ravine. The accident happened just 500 metres from a safe stopping area.
The bus was owned by Jong Charoen Capital Co Ltd (Ratchaburi) and was registered in Bangkok.
Police initially said that the bus was either going too fast or suffered brake failure.
The accident is the third in the last week affecting workers from Myanmar. Twenty died in an inferno last week and 14 were lucky to escape death after a minivan burst into flames earlier this week.
(Source:-Thai Rath)