Indonesia: Twelve killed and five injured in bus crash

The incident involved a bus operated by the Antar Lintas Sumatra (ALS) company, traveling the Medan-Jakarta route. Read further on Dynamite News

Jakarta: At least 12 people were killed and more than five others injured in a single-vehicle bus accident in Padang Panjang city, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, on Tuesday morning, an official confirmed.

The incident involved a bus operated by the Antar Lintas Sumatra (ALS) company, traveling the Medan-Jakarta route. The bus reportedly lost control and overturned after experiencing a brake failure.

"The ALS bus experienced brake failure while moving at high speed. It failed to negotiate a bend and rolled over," said Arkes Refagus, head of the transport department in Padang Panjang.

He added that the bus rolled to the left and struck the fence of a house. "The driver survived as he was seated on the right side, while the bus overturned to the left," Refagus told Xinhua.

According to Refagus, the bus was carrying 25 passengers. All the victims were transported to two local hospitals.

Earlier Accident

Last week of March four people killed and three injured in Sukoharjo Regency when a train and a car collided.

The accident took place at a railway crossing on Pasarangutar Street. Seeing this, everyone's soul trembled. Feni Novida Saragih, public relations coordinator of Operations Area 06 of Indonesia's state-owned railway company PT Kereta AP Indonesia, said that all the victims were immediately rushed to DKR Sukoharjo Hospital. Saragih told Xinhua,

All the casualties were people in the car. Sukoharjo Regency Police Chief Angagito Hadi Prabowo said, four people died and three others were injured in the accident. He said that the victims were going to their hometown to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr at the time of the accident, which is an Islamic festival marking the end of Ramadan.