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Bus Crash Kills Seven on Rangoon-Mandalay Highway

Wai Wai Lwin by Wai Wai Lwin
December 23, 2016
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Rescuers pull passengers from the bus wreckage, Dec. 22, 2016. / Myanmar Fire Services Department

Rescuers pull passengers from the bus wreckage, Dec. 22, 2016. / Myanmar Fire Services Department

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RANGOON — Seven people were killed and 38 were injured in a Thursday night traffic accident on the Rangoon-Naypyidaw-Mandalay highway.

A Mandalar Minn company bus was traveling from Naypyidaw to Rangoon when it struck a traffic island and rolled over near milepost 91 around 7:15pm. The bus was carrying 45 passengers.

The injured passengers—22 men and 16 women—were transported to Myochaung General Hospital and Pegu General Hospital. The dead included four men and three women, according to the Myanmar Fire Services Department.

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