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Jun 5, 2009, 8:05 GMT

Thai bus accident kills 17 health volunteers

Bangkok - A double-decker tour bus taking Thai provincial health volunteers for a weekend seminar crashed Friday, killing 17 people, police said. Witnesses said they saw the bus zig-zag as if the driver had fallen asleep and then run off the road into trees at about 6 am, police Colonel Thakoon Netpukana said. The accident occurred in the Plaipraya district of Krabi province, 600 kilometres south of Bangkok. The bus was one of a convoy of 12 vehicles taking about 500 health volunteers from Samut Prakan province to Panyi Island in Phang Nga province for a seminar near the beach. 'It was lucky this accident occurred so early before schoolchildren were out on the road,' Thakoon said in a telephone interview from Plaipraya. Police charged the bus driver with carelessness leading to manslaughter.

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