Pilgrimage bus blows tire, hits roadside power pole, injuring 11 including young children

Pilgrimage bus tire bursts, crashes into roadside power pole, injuring 11 including young children

October 24

A vehicle carrying pilgrims from Mawlamyine to Kyaikkhami suffered a tire blowout, injuring 11 passengers including young children, it is reported.

At around 6 a.m. on October 24, on the Mawlamyine–Mudon main road near the 300-bed hospital in Kyar Inn quarter, Mawlamyine, a Hijet vehicle traveling from Kharum Shan village in Mawlamyine on a pilgrimage to Kyaikkhami had its front tire burst and crashed into a roadside power pole, it is reported.

"There are people with broken arms, head wounds, and dislocated waists. I don't think there is any danger to life. The tire burst and it overturned; the people on the vehicle were thrown off," a local eyewitness said.

Due to the crash, the driver and three men, four women, and four young children aboard the vehicle were injured, it is reported, and the injured were transported by five emergency vehicles to the nearby 300-bed hospital, it is reported.

Similarly, at around 5:30 a.m. this morning, October 24, in Heho town, southern Shan State, a passenger vehicle suffered a brake failure and overturned near the Thikhong mountain descent curve between mileposts 87/6 and 87/6 on the Kalaw–Taunggyi union highway, injuring two women, it is reported.

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