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At least 16 people killed in a passenger bus crash on Indonesia’s main island Java Just after midnight Monday, authorities said.
The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll road and hit a concrete barrier before rolling onto its side, said Budyono, head of the search and rescue agency known by the same name as many Indonesians.
The inter-provincial bus was traveling from the capital jakarta He said it overturned while entering a curved exit ramp on the Krapyak toll road in the central Java city of Semarang in the country’s ancient royal city of Yogyakarta.
“Many passengers were thrown by the force of the impact and were trapped in the body of the bus,” Budyono said.
Police And rescue teams arrived about 40 minutes after the accident and recovered the bodies of six passengers, who died at the scene. Budyono said another 10 people died on the way to hospital or during treatment.
He said that of the 18 victims who are undergoing treatment in two nearby hospitals, the condition of five people is critical and the condition of 13 is critical.
Television news reports showed the yellow bus overturned on its side and surrounded by National Search and Rescue Agency personnel, police and passers-by, and ambulances carrying victims and the dead away from the crash site.