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At Least 20 Russian Tourists Injured in Thailand Bus Crash

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At Least 20 Russian Tourists Injured in Thailand Bus Crash


04.10.2010

About 20 Russian tourists were injured after their bus overturned near the Thai resort city of Pattaya, the Russian embassy in Bangkok said on Sunday, RIA Novosti reports. The bus, which set off from Pattaya on a two-day trip to the Kanchanaburi province flipped over some 20 km from Pattaya at about 6:00 a.m. local time on Sunday.

"Out of 42 people who were in the bus, about 20 people received injuries and bruises. They were delivered from the accident site to two hospitals in Pattaya. The injuries are mostly not grave," Andrei Dvornikov, head of the consular department of the Russian embassy in Thailand, said.

The Russian consul also said that at the moment of his talk with the media, only two Russians were staying at the hospital. He added that there were several Ukrainians among those injured in the road accident.

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