Nine Russian tourists die in Vietnam bus accident

HANOI. March 14. KAZINFORM Nine Russian tourists died in a bus accident in southern Vietnam on Friday evening, a source at the Russian General Consulate in Ho Chi Minh told Itar-Tass.

A group of 24 Russian tourists in the bus returned after an excursion from the Vietnamese city of Da Lat to the resort site of Phan Thiet. According to the preliminary information, the driver lost control of the bus on a mountain road. Nine Russians died in the accident, and fourteen were injured. The injured people were taken to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh, Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.